{"id":197714,"date":"2021-06-09T20:29:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T20:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/09\/russian-court-expected-to-outlaw-alexei-navalnys-organisation"},"modified":"2021-06-09T20:29:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T20:29:12","slug":"russian-court-outlaws-alexei-navalnys-organisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/06\/09\/russian-court-outlaws-alexei-navalnys-organisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian court outlaws Alexei Navalny\u2019s organisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Court has in effect liquidated the opposition politician\u2019s movement by classifying it as \u2018extremist\u2019 <\/p><p>A Russian court has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/26\/russia-suspends-activities-alexei-navalny-opposition-movement-organisation\">outlawed opposition politician Alexei Navalny<\/a>\u2019s nationwide political organisation on the grounds it is \u201cextremist\u201d, in a landmark step for Vladimir Putin\u2019s crackdown on political dissent.<\/p><p>The court decision, which had been anticipated, in effect liquidates Navalny\u2019s non-violent opposition movement and bars his allies from running for office for years, as the Kremlin seeks to erase the jailed opposition leader from Russian political life.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/apr\/23\/the-guardian-view-on-russias-opposition-given-hell-but-not-giving-up\">The Guardian view on Russia\u2019s opposition: given hell, but not giving up | Editorial<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/09\/russian-court-expected-to-outlaw-alexei-navalnys-organisation\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/09\/russian-court-expected-to-outlaw-alexei-navalnys-organisation\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court has in effect liquidated the opposition politician\u2019s movement by classifying it as \u2018extremist\u2019 A Russian court has outlawed opposition politician Alexei Navalny\u2019s nationwide political organisation on the grounds it is \u201cextremist\u201d, in a landmark s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8722,6,1156,24,3089,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197714"}],"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\/2311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197715,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197714\/revisions\/197715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}