Putin critic given world's top human rights award

[Cypress]

Europe is giving its top human rights prize to Vladimir Putin's most prominent critic

BRUSSELS — Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was awarded the European Union's top human rights prize Wednesday in a clear slap at President Vladimir Putin.

In awarding the Sakharov Prize to Navalny, the European Parliament praised his "immense personal bravery." The 45-year-old activist was poisoned with a nerve agent last year and promptly arrested upon his return to Moscow from treatment in Germany and later imprisoned.

"He has campaigned consistently against the corruption of Vladimir Putin's regime, and through his social media accounts and political campaigns, Navalny has helped expose abuses and mobilize the support of millions of people across Russia. For this, he was poisoned and thrown in jail," parliament President David Sassoli in a statement.


https://www.npr.org/2021/10/20/10476...n-rights-prize

[ThatOwlWoman]

Americans who cry that "masks are tyranny" have never experienced true tyranny. Navalny has.

[Cypress]

Americans who cry that "masks are tyranny" have never experienced true tyranny. Navalny has.

While the Capitol insurrectionists are crying in court and groveling for mercy, Navalvy looked Putin's judges right in their eyes and dared them to throw him in prison.

His cause is righteous. And he knows it.

The cause of the MAGA crybabies is not righteous, they know it, and that is why so many of them are breaking down in tears at court.