Thousands of Russians have posted selfies wearing red tops to show support for jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s wife.
Social media users shared the pictures after Navalny’s wife, Yulia Navalnaya, wore a red jumper in court when her husband was handed his verdict earlier this week.
As his sentence was read, Navalny made a heart sign with his hands and smiled at Yulia, 44, from behind the glass panel of his holding cell.
He told Yulia, who was crying as the verdict was read out: ‘Don’t be sad, everything will be fine’.
Fashion journalist and brand consultant Katya Fedorova has now encouraged other social media users to use Navalny’s words to his wife in a hashtag.
Fashion journalist and brand consultant Katya Fedorova (pictured above, wearing a red top) started the hashtag in an Instagram post that gained over 19,200 likes
As his sentence was read, Alexei Navalny, 44, made a heart sign with his hands (pictured above) and smiled at Yulia Navalnaya, 44, from behind the glass panel of his holding cell
Yulia pictured wearing a red jumper in court when her husband was handed his verdict earlier this week. She responded underneath Katya’s post, commenting in Russian: ‘Thank you!’
Katya shared the post, which has accumulated over 19,200 likes, to Instagram one day ago.
She captioned: ‘I invite all those who care to post selfies wearing red, so Yulia and everyone else can follow the hashtag and see that we are many and we are not indifferent’, reports the Moscow Times.
Yulia responded underneath Katya’s post, commenting in Russian: ‘Thank you!’
It came as Navalny, in a note from jail, urged Russians on Thursday to ‘free’ the country from a ‘bunch of thieves’, while the Kremlin cast the arrests of thousands of protesters as a due response to the unsanctioned rallies.
Navalny, 44, who was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison, said in a statement posted on his Instagram account that ‘iron doors slammed behind my back with a deafening…
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