The UN human rights chief has called on Russia to conduct or cooperate with a 'thorough, transparent, independent and impartial investigation' into the alleged nerve agent attack on the Russian opposition leader.
The United Nations human rights chief has called on Russia to conduct or cooperate with a"thorough, transparent, independent and impartial investigation" into the alleged nerve agent attack on Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
"It is incumbent on the Russian authorities to fully investigate who was responsible for this crime, a very serious crime that was committed on Russian soil," she said in a statement.Mr Navalny, an anti-corruption campaigner and one of President Vladimir Putin's fiercest critics, fell ill on a domestic flight last month and was treated in a Siberian hospital before being evacuated to Berlin.
Ms Bachelet stressed on Tuesday that"the number of cases of poisoning, or other forms of targeted assassination, of current or former Russian citizens, either within Russia itself or on foreign soil, over the past two decades is profoundly disturbing".
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