INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said Tuesday that pro-war nationalist Igor Girkin, who was arrested last week on extremism charges,
should be recognized as a political prisoner.Girkin, a Russian army veteran and ex-FSB officer also known as Igor Strelkov, was arrested
A person can only be judged for the crime he committed
organize pro-Russian separatist militias in eastern Ukraine in 2014
He then served as the military commander of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic.In November 2022, he was sentenced to life in
prison in absentia by a court in The Hague for the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014, killing 298
people.Navalny, who has spoken out against the invasion of Ukraine, is serving a nine-year prison sentence on charges he and his supporters
deem to be politically motivated
