The foreign ministers of G7 states and the European Union’s top diplomat condemned the arrest of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, and expressed their concern over the detention of protesters that were demanding the freeing of Navalny. The diplomats called on Russia to immediately and unconditionally release Navalny. The foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and the high representative of the European Union condemned the detention of Navalny in a joint statement issued on Tuesday, calling it “politically motivated.” The statement says Navalny has been detained “in relation to court decisions which the European Court of Human Rights determined in 2017 to be arbitrary and manifestly unreasonable. ” “Russia is bound by its national and international obligations to respect and ensure human rights,” the statement says. G7 ministers also expressed their concern about the arbitrary detention of thousands of protesters and journalists …