Nobel laureates appealed to the International Committee of the Red Cross with a demand to intervene in the fate of Navalny

An appeal on behalf of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winners Dmitry Muratov and Maria Ressa (a human rights activist from the Philippines) was published on the Novaya Gazeta website.

The text before the letter says that out of two years of imprisonment, Navalny spent more than 100 days in a punishment cell, while lawyers cannot give Alexei the necessary medicines. The authors of the letter say that a century ago, the International Committee of the Red Cross rescued political prisoners from prisons in Russia when the organization came into contact with the leaders of the Leninist and Stalinist administrations, trying to alleviate the plight of the prisoners.

“After the Second World War, the ability to provide assistance to political prisoners was finally assigned to the Red Cross. And we ask you to use it. Show selflessness. It is impossible to feel like a person when political prisoners are being tortured nearby, in prisons and camps. Look what they did to the politician Alexei Navalny. Numerous punishments for any reason and lack of medical care. Can I then look into the eyes of his wife, children, parents? Do as you are told by your universal humanitarian principle: “Prevention of human suffering,” the appeal says.