Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, Alexey Navalny, was released from jail and then immediately arrested again on charges of calling for unsanctioned protests.
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He was immediately taken to a police station where he was again charged again with organizing an unsanctioned demonstration, his spokeswoman, Kira Yarmish wrote on .
Navalny was arrested the last time in August shortly after he called for nationwide protests against a reform to raise Russia’s pension age.
He was jailed then on charges relating to a demonstration organized eight months previously in January close to Red Square.
The Kremlin has said Navalny's protests violate a law requiring rallies to be authorized and has called Navalny a criminal.
The conviction was used in 2018 to bar him from taking part in this year's presidential election. »