The lawyer of the main opponent of the regime acknowledges in an interview with MujerHoy that she never thought that the Russian president was going to start the war in Ukraine
Lyubov Sobol (Moscow, 1987) received this Tuesday in Estonia, where he had to go into exile to protect his life, the news that Alexei Navalni, the main political opponent of the Russian Government, has been found guilty of fraud and sentenced to nine years in prison. harsh prison. He was not surprised. Navalni’s lawyer and right-hand man, and therefore in the sights of the Putin regime, knows that Russian justice will act on the dictates of a man who today, too, has become a global threat: Vladimir Putin.
“It was clear that Putin would not want to let Navalni out of prison and would propose new terms. He is in prison not because he committed any kind of crime, but because he was an opponent of Putin, he claimed the presidency and he told the truth. As long as Putin sits in the Kremlin, Navalni will not be able to go free, “says Sobol in statements to
WomanTodaya magazine to which he has given an interview that will hit newsstands in a few days.
In Russia, he recalls, “any opposition activity is prohibited. Putin is snatching the future from the Russians and making any peaceful transfer of power in the country impossible: elections are banned, all critics are jailed. We will continue to fight for Russia, but every day it is more difficult.
Lyubov Sobol, who believes that if he had stayed in Russia “right now he would be in an isolation cell in a prison”, decided to go into exile “in order to continue working”, although he is aware that no opponent of Putin can rest easy wherever he is. The Navalni poisoning is a good example. And that he was lucky. «He Now he is in total isolation. Russian prisons are very harsh and this type of regime is even harsher. They are subhuman conditions that break people, destroy them », explains Sobol, who cannot have the communication that he would like, nor the desirable one, with his defender.
“I apologize to the Ukrainian people for not having done enough to stop him,” Sobol tells MujerHoy, while acknowledging that, “despite knowing him very well, knowing that he is a dangerous person, who does not believe in dialogue, I never thought he would take the step of invading Ukraine.”
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