Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny called Girkin's detention illegal in a Tuesday message.
arrested for allegedly inciting extremism
Navalny, meanwhile, has been in jail since February 2021 under major fraud and contempt of court charges. In April,that he is now facing additional extremism charges that could keep him locked up for life. "As long as he remains in custody on this ridiculous and obviously politically motivated charge, he is a political prisoner,"."Now Strelkov is arrested not on charges of committing a real crime, but on a fictitious and fabricated case of extremism.
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