![Navalny, 44, has been convalescing in Germany from an alleged nerve agent poisoning in August that he has blamed on the Kremlin [File: Tatyana Makeyeva/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2019-02-24T120631Z_1022164778_UP1EF2O0XMVTU_RTRMADP_3_RUSSIA-NEMTSOV.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
FSIN says it is ‘obliged’ to arrest Kremlin critic because he broke the terms of a previous suspended sentence.
From: Inside Story
Will protests against President Putin gain momentum in Russia?
Tens of thousands hold biggest protests in years to demand the release of Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny.
24 Jan 2021
Related
![Russia accuses him of flouting the terms of a suspended prison sentence for embezzlement, a 2014 case he says was trumped up [Polina Ivanova/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2021-01-17T140743Z_1878624354_RC2Q9L9X7TG2_RTRMADP_3_RUSSIA-POLITICS-NAVALNY.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Alexey Navalny, who was in Germany for five months after he was poisoned, returns home despite threat of arrest.
![Monday's verdict was delivered in a courtroom set up at the police station in Khimki, on the outskirts of Moscow, where Navalny was taken following his detention on Sunday night [Courtesy of Instagram @NAVALNY/Social Media via Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2021-01-18T145701Z_1879618163_RC2EAL9MM4JW_RTRMADP_3_RUSSIA-POLITICS-NAVALNY.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Leading opposition figure now set to remain in prison until February 15 following dramatic airport arrest.
![In a statement Friday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said 'the world was horrified' by Khashoggi's murder and announced a visa restriction policy named after the prominent Saudi journalist and dissident [File: AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/image-3.jpg?resize=170%2C113)
![Report said Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman viewed journalist Jamal Khashoggi as 'a threat to the kingdom' [File: Bandar Algaloud/Courtesy of Saudi Royal Court/Handout via REUTERS]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2018-12-24T102212Z_1556355231_RC1FF095AE20_RTRMADP_3_SAUDI-ACADEMY.jpg?resize=170%2C113)
![Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has rejected a US report showing Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the operation that killed Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in 2018 [File: Murad Sezer/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2018-10-12T000000Z_688011331_RC116AA1CE50_RTRMADP_3_SAUDI-POLITICS-DISSIDENT.jpg?resize=170%2C113)
![The Pentagon said the US military conducted the air raids against Iran-backed militias at US President Biden’s direction [File: US Navy/Matthew Freeman/EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/h_54693336.jpg?resize=170%2C113)