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TALLINN, Estonia — Imprisoned Russian opposition chief Alexei Navalny discovered Monday from his lawyer {that a} movie detailing his poisoning and political activism won the Oscar for best documentary feature.

The 46-year-old politician was attending a courtroom listening to by way of video hyperlink from the jail when his legal professional broke the information to him in regards to the documentary, “Navalny,” by director Daniel Roher, in response to his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh. She known as it “essentially the most exceptional announcement of an (Oscar) win in historical past.”

Yarmysh didn’t report what Navalny’s preliminary response was to the Oscar win.

In accordance with Yarmysh, Navalny confronted a courtroom listening to in Kovrov, a city close to the place the jail is situated within the Vladimir area east of Moscow. President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critic participated within the listening to on a criticism he filed in opposition to Russian penitentiary officers.

At a briefing, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov refused to touch upon the Oscar win, saying that he hasn’t seen the movie and thus “it wouldn’t make sense to say something” about it. He added that “Hollywood generally doesn’t shun politicizing its work.”

Monday’s listening to was on one of many many lawsuits the defiant Navalny has filed in opposition to jail directors over what he alleges are violations of his rights. Two extra hearings have been scheduled, however these have been postponed till later dates.

The documentary portrays Navalny’s profession of preventing official corruption, his near-fatal poisoning with a nerve agent in 2020 that he that blames on the Kremlin, and his five-month recuperation in Germany and his 2021 return to Moscow, the place he was instantly taken into custody on the airport. He was later sentenced to 2 1/2 years in jail and final yr was convicted and given one other nine-year time period.

Navalny has confronted unrelenting stress from authorities. He spent a number of weeks in isolation in a tiny “punishment cell” and final month was positioned in a restricted housing unit for six months. He’s successfully disadvantaged of telephone calls or visits from his household.

On the ceremony Sunday night in Los Angeles, Roher accepted his Oscar by saying he devoted it to Navalny and to all political prisoners world wide.

“Alexei, the world has not forgotten your very important message to us all: We should not be afraid to oppose dictators and authoritarianism wherever it rears its head,” he stated.

Navalny’s wife, Yulia, also spoke, saying: “My husband is in jail only for telling the reality. My husband is in jail only for defending democracy. Alexei, I’m dreaming of the day you may be free and our nation will likely be free. Keep robust, my love.”

His daughter Dasha instructed reporters on the occasion that the one method the household is ready to keep in contact with him is thru letters, and protection attorneys are capable of go to him often. His well being is deteriorating, she stated, which is worrying.

Lyubov Sobol, Navalny’s longtime ally, stated in an interview with The Related Press that the documentary’s success represented “an vital sign that the world sees the efforts to struggle for democracy in Russia, the world helps courageous and brave individuals who have challenged Vladimir Putin and have been preventing the unequal battle with evil, which is now tormenting the whole world and Ukraine within the first place.”

“It’s an important victory and I used to be unspeakably glad,” Sobol stated.

Related Press journalist Kostya Manenkov in Tallinn contributed.

For extra protection of this yr’s Oscars, go to: https://apnews.com/hub/academy-awards