The critic of Russia’s leadership, Alexei Navalny, is dead, the prison administration announced on Friday. The 47-year-old served a years-long prison sentence in a penal colony. Navalny was convicted of extremism, among other things; he has always denied the accusation. His political movement was banned and close associates were imprisoned or fled abroad.
Navalny was last held in a prison camp in the town of Kovrov in the Vladimir region, about 160 miles east of Moscow. He was sentenced to 19 years in a prison camp and is internationally classified as a political prisoner of Moscow. The opposition figure, who also complained of torture in custody, narrowly survived an assassination attempt using the chemical warfare agent Novichok in August 2020. Navalny had blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin and a domestic secret service FSB assassination squad for the attack.
Navalny was one of the most popular Russian opposition figures. This was based on his revelations about corruption in the leadership and his organization of protests. But he is also criticized for previous nationalist statements. (red)
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