FILE PHOTO: Russian law enforcement officers attempt to detain Ruslan Shaveddinov, a project manager at Anti-Corruption Foundation led by opposition politician Alexei Navalny, during a rally in Moscow, Russia June 12, 2017. REUTERS/Evgeny Feldman/File Photo
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny said on Wednesday that the forcible military conscription of one of his allies to a remote air base in the Arctic amounted to kidnapping and illegal imprisonment.
Ruslan Shaveddinov, a project manager at Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, was detained at his Moscow flat on Monday after the door was broken down, the electricity cut, and the SIM card on his mobile phone remotely disabled.
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