MOSCOW (APP) – Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny walked free on Monday after spending 15 days in jail over a rally protesting against alleged massive corruption by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
The opposition leader and anti-corruption campaigner was arrested on March 26 at the largest unauthorised demonstration of recent years in Moscow and found guilty of disobeying police orders.
On Monday afternoon he was released at the appointed time, his campaign director Leonid Volkov told several dozen journalists waiting outside the detention centre where he had been held in northern Moscow.
Police had moved Navalny to a different detention centre before releasing him, in an apparent attempt to avoid media coverage.