I've talked about Alexei Navalny with some folks and I think my last scribble was an overeaction
for three reasons:

1) Navalny was in prison because he returned to Russia on his own. He was there (not so much in prison, but Russia) by choice.
2) His days were probably numbered by Putin no matter what.
3) We don't know that he was part of the negotiations between the many parties that made up the August 1 exchange of perpetrators and hostages.