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| - The European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday ordered Russia to release jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. Earlier in February Navalny was sentenced to nearly three years in prison, months after being poisoned in an attack he blames on Russian President Vladimir Putin. Here is a timeline: The 44-year-old anti-corruption campaigner is hospitalised on August 20, 2020 in Omsk, Siberia, after losing consciousness on a flight. Put into a medically induced coma, he is transferred two days later to hospital in Berlin at his family's request. Berlin says on September 2 that medical tests carried out by a German army laboratory yielded "unequivocal evidence" that Navalny was poisoned by Novichok, a Soviet-era chemical weapon. The European Union and NATO demand an investigation. Two days later, the Kremlin rejects claims that Moscow was behind the poisoning. On September 7, Navalny emerges from the coma. Laboratories in France and Sweden then confirm Germany's findings that Navalny was poisoned with Novichok. Putin condemns "unsubstantiated" accusations. On September 22, Navalny is discharged. Navalny accuses Putin of being behind his poisoning. Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov calls his claims "groundless and unacceptable". Navalny releases on October 21 a recording of him tricking a Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) agent on the phone into confessing that he tried to kill him. The FSB describes the phone call as a "provocation". In mid-January, Navalny says he plans to return home despite a threat of jail. He is arrested and detained on January 17 shortly after landing in Moscow. Navalny urges Russians to "take to the streets". Navalny releases an investigation, which goes viral, into a lavish Black Sea property he claims is owned by Putin, who says he does not own it. The authorities round up Navalny's allies. On January 23 and 31, tens of thousands of demonstrators demand Navalny's release. Thousands are detained. On February 2, Navalny is handed a nearly three-year prison term. The West calls for his immediate release. He urges his supporters to liberate Russia from a "handful of thieves". - On February 5, as the EU's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell visits Moscow, it expels German, Swedish and Polish diplomats for supporting Navalny. The three countries expel Russian diplomats in return. Navalny goes back to a Moscow court on February 12 for allegedly defaming a 94-year-old war veteran. The Strasbourg-based ECHR on February 17 orders Russia to release Navalny "with immediate effect". ang-kd/jmy/eab/har
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