Russia's prison service tells Navalny to appear or face jail Russia’s federal penitentiary service has given top Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny one day to report to its office or face imprisonmentMOSCOW -- Russia's federal penitentiary service on Monday gave top Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny one day to report to its office or face imprisonment, if he comes back to Russia after the deadline. Navalny is convalescing in Germany after his August poisoning with a nerve agent, which he has blamed on the Kremlin. The Federal Penitentiary Service issued a statement Monday saying that an article by doctors from Berlin’s Charite hospital and published in medical journal The Lancet indicated that Navalny has fully recuperated. The prison service demanded that Navalny report to its office in line with the terms of a 3 1/2-year suspended sentence he received for a 2014 conviction. They refused to open a full-fledged criminal inquiry, citing the lack of evidence that Navalny was poisoned.

Source: ABC News December 28, 2020 21:00 UTC