M100 Board Member Kai Diekmann on the M100 Media Award for Alexei Navalny

“By conferring the M100 Media Award on Alexei Navalny, we are appealing to the EU and the democratic world not to forget him – as well as all the other imprisoned democratic opposition leaders worldwide – and not to abandon them. Russia is both a member of the Council of Europe and a co-signatory of the European Convention on Human Rights. Not insisting on compliance with this obligation and thus on Navalny’s release would be a fatal sign and further weaken democracy.”