Putin’s fiercest critic Alexei Navalny dies in jail after ‘going for a stroll’
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s greatest political opponent has died in jail.
Alexei Navalny had been held in a Russian jail since January 2021. A press release mentioned that he felt “unwell” after going for a stroll and “collapsed” instantly.
A spokesman for the Yamalo-Nenets district jail service mentioned: “On February 16, 2024, in correctional colony No. 3, convicted Navalny A, after the walk felt unwell, almost immediately losing consciousness. Medical workers from the institution arrived immediately and an emergency medical team was called.
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“All necessary resuscitation measures were carried out, but did not yield positive results. Emergency doctors confirmed the death of the convict. The causes of death are being established.”
Just 24 hours earlier than his demise, Navalny’s lawyer Olga Mikhailova was arrested “in absentia” on prices of particition in an extremist group. The information was put onto social media web site Twitter/X, and was really the ultimate interplay Navalny had on the location as he retweeted it to his 2.9million followers.
The whereabouts of Mikhailova is presently unknown.
At the top of 2023, Navalny had been given a brand new 19-year sentence for “extremism,” of which the transfer was understood to be a part of – however had beforehand been at central Russia’s IK-2 within the Vladimir area below fraud prices.
He was jailed in 2021 after he returned to Moscow from Germany.
The demise comes only a few weeks after he went lacking for 20 days, solely to have been present in a jail colony in northern Russia. The facility had been flagged as a regarding place for Navalny to have been despatched and it’s extremely distant. Navalny’s lawyer Ivan Zhdanov mentioned on the time that it was “one of the most northern and remote,” within the nation and linked the isolation to the upcoming 2024 presidential election elections in Russia.
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