Press Release: Statement by the Spokesperson of High Representative Catherine Ashton on the sentencing of Alexey Navalny and Pyotr Ofitserov

On 18 July 2013 EU High Representative Catherine Ashton expressed her concern about the guilty verdict and the prison sentences handed down by the Kirov Court against Alexey Navalny, member of the Russian opposition coordination council and anti-corruption campaigner, and his co-defendant Pyotr Ofitserov.