{"id":11317,"date":"2021-01-21T15:39:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=152954"},"modified":"2021-01-21T15:39:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:39:27","slug":"navalny-lawyer-sobol-detained-by-russian-police-charged-with-calling-unsanctioned-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/21\/navalny-lawyer-sobol-detained-by-russian-police-charged-with-calling-unsanctioned-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"Navalny Lawyer Sobol Detained By Russian Police, Charged With Calling Unsanctioned Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1edc889e-53fb-4d56-b558-b95b05b1273d_w1200_r1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>Lyubov Sobol, a lawyer for Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, has been detained by police on a charge of calling for an unsanctioned rally in relation to a planned nationwide protest on January 23 in support of the jailed Kremlin critic.<\/p>\n<p>Sobol&#8217;s lawyer, Vladimir Voronin, <strong><a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vb_voronin\/status\/1352252047047929856\">tweeted<\/a><\/strong> on January 21 that police <strong><a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pscp.tv\/w\/1nAJELbYaWyGL\">stopped his car and took his client<\/a><\/strong> to a police station to charge her there. Before that, three men had been at Sobol&#8217;s apartment and tried to hand her a written warning from the Moscow Prosecutor&#8217;s Office about the planned protest.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, a lawyer with Navalny&#8217;s Anti-Corruption Fund, Vladlen Los, who is Belarusian citizen, was <strong><a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VladlenLos\/status\/1352247450652831753\">briefly detained<\/a><\/strong> and informed that he must leave Russia before January 25.<\/p>\n<p>At a January 18 hearing that Navalny called a &#8220;mockery of justice,&#8221; a judge ruled to keep him incarcerated until February 15, by which time a different court is expected to decide whether to convert a suspended 3 1\/2 year sentence he served in an embezzlement case, which he says is being trumped up into real jail time.<\/p>\n<p>His team subsequently called for nationwide protests on January 23.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/21\/navalny-lawyer-sobol-detained-by-russian-police-charged-with-calling-unsanctioned-rally\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lyubov Sobol, a lawyer for Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, has been detained by police on a charge of calling for an unsanctioned rally in relation to a\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,23,24,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11318,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11317\/revisions\/11318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}