The opposition leader flew back to Moscow from Germany on Sunday and was immediately detained by masked officers. He was held overnight in a police station in the city of Khimki, just north of central Moscow.
Navalny was placed last month on the list of federal searches in the country for violating the probationary terms related to a 2014 conviction for fraud, which he rejects as politically motivated.
The Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) has asked a court to replace its suspended sentence with a prison sentence. If the request is accepted, Navalny will probably be imprisoned for 3.5 years.
Governments around the world have criticized Russia for Navalny’s arrest. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, and German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas have called for his immediate release.
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