U.S. Congress calls for sanctions for Navalny's poisoning
The US Congress condemns the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. This Legislature calls for decisive action by the United States and the international community - appropriate resolution was published on the official website of the Congress.
The document says that the House of Representatives condemns the clearly deliberate poisoning of Russian anti-corruption activist and opposition leader Alexei Navalny on August 20, 2020, expresses hope for his full recovery and return to work, and also calls on human rights monitoring bodies to track the poisoning case Navalny as a possible violation of his fundamental human rights, as a result of which to take appropriate measures.
The House of Representatives calls on the Russian government to cooperate in an independent, impartial, and thorough investigation into Navalny's poisoning, and on the U.S. government to support multilateral efforts to secure such an investigation, to open an international case into Navalny's poisoning, and to emphasize the need to hold the organizers and perpetrators accountable.
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The document calls on the US Secretary of State and the head of the US Treasury to designate those involved, in their opinion, in the poisoning of Alexei Navalny as criminals, organizers or masterminds, and to add them to the list of those whose assets are subject to freezing, and they themselves are subject to deprivation of the right to receive visas to the USA. Congress gives 60 days to investigate whether Navalny's poisoning is a fact of the use of chemical weapons by the Russian government. If yes, then impose sanctions in accordance with the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Eradication Act of 1991.
The document also mentions details from Navalny's biography: he won 27% of the votes in the Moscow mayoral elections in 2013, he was subsequently denied the opportunity to participate in the elections and was sent to prison several times for participating in unauthorized protests, he was twice attacked using chemical weapons in 2017 and potentially poisoned in 2019 in prison.
It is also mentioned that German chemical weapons experts have found "unequivocal" evidence that Navalny was poisoned with a Soviet-era chemical nerve agent Novichok in August 2020, which was confirmed by laboratories in France and Sweden, but denied by the Russian government.
Congress calls to recall the mysterious deaths and murders of other Russian journalists, human rights activists, politicians and whistleblowers: former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko and investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya in 2006; human rights defender Stanislav Markelov, journalist Anastasia Baburova and human rights defender Natalya Estemirova in 2009; opposition politician Boris Nemtsov in 2015.
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Congress notes that, under the Magnitsky Act on Global Responsibility for the Law and Accountability in Human Rights, the US government has the power to respond to serious human rights abuses in Russia, as it did in 2018: then after the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter of Yulia, the US government has imposed two rounds of sanctions against Russia.
As ForumDaily wrote earlier:
- On the morning of August 20, during a flight from Tomsk to Moscow, the founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), Alexei Navalny, felt sick on the plane. The liner made an emergency landing in Omsk, where Navalny was hospitalized in the emergency hospital No. 1, in the toxic intensive care unit. There the politician fell into a coma.
- Ex-FSB officer and opposition politician Gennady Gudkov toldwhy Navalny's associates and other politicians call the version of the involvement of the special services a priority, as well as how and with what the oppositionist could have been poisoned.
- August 21, the wife of Alexei Navalny Julia signed permission to transport her husband for treatment in Germany. On the morning of August 22, Navalny taken by plane to Berlin... He was still in a coma.
- The clinic where Navalny was taken confirmed the assumptions about his poisoning... Clinical studies have indicated a substance from the group of cholinesterase inhibitors.
- Transportation of an opposition politician to Germany on a special medical plane paid for by Russian businessman Boris Ziminwho now lives in the United States.
- In the United States Department of Commerce сообщилиthat Washington has good reason to believe that the research institutes (SRIs) of the Russian Defense Ministry are involved in the development of chemical and biological weapons.
- September 4th German laboratory found traces of Novichok in Navalny's skin, blood and urine samples.
- On September 7, the Charite clinic, where Alexei Navalny was located, released a new message: politics brought out of an artificial coma and began to gradually disconnect from the ventilator.
- On September 10, it became known that Navalny completely recovered, memory and speech returned to him.
- September 15 politician for the first time since poisoning posted a photo on Instagram. The New York Times writes that he intends to return to Russia.
- On September 23rd, the clinic announced that Navalny was discharged... In total, he spent 32 days in a German hospital.
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