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New court filings claim ICE lawyers falsely cited a May memo to justify arresting thousands of people who attended immigration court hearings, saying the memo did not authorize such arrests; the revelation arises in a NYCLU-led lawsuit challenging ICE’s practice of detaining noncitizens after hearings.
Concerns are growing for the well-being of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny after he failed to appear at court hearings and his team lost contact with him. Navalny, who is currently serving multiple sentences, including a 19-year term, claims his arrest and incarceration are politically motivated to silence his criticism of President Vladimir Putin. His lawyers have made inquiries with detention centers across Russia to determine his whereabouts, while the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in Russia has expressed concern over Navalny's disappearance and the lack of access to medical care. The rapporteur called for his immediate release and for Russian authorities to uphold their international human rights obligations.
A Russian court has postponed Alexei Navalny's court hearings until his whereabouts are established, following his disappearance in the prison system. Navalny's team sent inquiries to over 200 pre-trial detention centers across the country to locate him. The court in the Vladimir region, where Navalny was serving a prison sentence, postponed the hearings. Concerns have been raised about his well-being and the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Russia called for his immediate release and disclosure of his whereabouts.