{"id":51760,"date":"2020-12-26T06:45:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T11:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=51760"},"modified":"2020-12-26T10:47:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T15:47:26","slug":"russia-opens-criminal-case-against-ally-of-kremlin-critic-navalny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-opens-criminal-case-against-ally-of-kremlin-critic-navalny\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia opens criminal case against ally of Kremlin critic Navalny"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussia-opens-criminal-case-against-ally-of-kremlin-critic-navalny%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=51760&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"292\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2020-12-25T064520Z_1_LYNXMPEGBO059_RTROPTP_0_RUSSIA-POLITICS-PROTESTS_1-292x210.jpg?x53567\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>December 26, 2020<\/p>\n<p>MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia launched a criminal case on Friday against Lyubov Sobol, an ally of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, over accusations she had violently entered a flat that her supporters said was linked to a secret agent involved in plot to kill Navalny.<\/p>\n<p>The move against Sobol is the latest in a clampdown on the Kremlin&#8217;s opponents before next year&#8217;s parliamentary election. Sobol aims to run for office, although outspoken critics of the Kremlin are often prevented from standing.<\/p>\n<p>Sobol was detained for 48 hours after questioning, Navalny, one of the Kremlin&#8217;s fiercest opponents, wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-spot\"><!-- AuctionX Display platform tag START --><\/p>\n<div id=\"24697x300x250x4195x_ADSLOT1\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- AuctionX Display platform tag END --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-pw-desk=\"med_rect_atf\"><\/div>\n<div data-pw-mobi=\"med_rect_atf\"><\/div>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s Investigative Committee, which handles serious crimes, said on its website on Friday it had launched a criminal case against Sobol. It did not mention any detention.<\/p>\n<p>Sobol&#8217;s supporters and the authorities gave different accounts of events leading up to Friday&#8217;s actions.<\/p>\n<p>Her supporters said she rang the doorbell on Monday of an apartment owned by the family of a man who Navalny has said was an FSB security service officer involved in a bungled attempt to poison him using a nerve agent.<\/p>\n<p>The FSB has dismissed Navalny&#8217;s account of the poisoning.<\/p>\n<p>In its account, the Investigative Committee said Sobol and several others tried to gain entry to an old woman&#8217;s flat in Moscow, wearing uniforms used by the state consumer health watchdog. <\/p>\n<p>It accused her of tricking a delivery courier to enter the apartment block before barging into the woman&#8217;s flat when she opened the door. It said Sobol was suspected of using violence to enter illegally, an offence that can carry a jail term of up to two years.<\/p>\n<p>Navalny wrote on Twitter: &#8220;They are locking up the mother of a small child for two days to tell everybody: don&#8217;t dig into this case. Don&#8217;t dare to mess with our killers and poisoners and knock on their doors. These killers are untouchable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Germany and other Western nations say Navalny was poisoned with a Soviet-style Novichok nerve agent in a murder attempt. The Kremlin has repeatedly denied the accusations.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Moscow newsroom; Writing by Tom Balmforth; Editing by Andrew Osborn and Edmund Blair)<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-spot\"><!-- AuctionX Display platform tag START --><\/p>\n<div id=\"24697x300x250x4195x_ADSLOT1\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- AuctionX Display platform tag END --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-pw-desk=\"med_rect_atf\"><\/div>\n<div data-pw-mobi=\"med_rect_atf\"><\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/russian-opposition-activist-lyubov-sobol-taken-in-for-police-questioning-ally\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia opens criminal case against ally of Kremlin critic Navalny<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One America News Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 26, 2020 MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia launched a criminal case on Friday against Lyubov Sobol, an ally of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, over accusations she had violently entered a flat &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2180768,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2020-12-25T064520Z_1_LYNXMPEGBO059_RTROPTP_0_RUSSIA-POLITICS-PROTESTS_1-292x210.jpg?x53567","fifu_image_alt":"Russia opens criminal case against ally of Kremlin critic Navalny","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2020-12-25T064520Z_1_LYNXMPEGBO059_RTROPTP_0_RUSSIA-POLITICS-PROTESTS_1-292x210.jpg?x53567","fifu_image_alt":"Russia opens criminal case against ally of Kremlin critic Navalny","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2180768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}