Death of jailed Russian opposition leader Navalny, another thorn in Putin’s path cleared

moscow, Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died. The prison service of the Yamalo-Nenets region gave this information on Friday. Alexey Navalny was serving his sentence in this jail. In a statement published on its website, the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District said Navalny “felt unwell” after taking a walk on Friday and “almost immediately lost consciousness.” According to a Reuters report, saying that medical staff were called, but they were unable to revive Navalny. Government sources said that the cause of Alexei Navalny’s death is still being ascertained.

Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition leader and vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin, was sentenced to 19 years in prison by a Russian court in August last year. Meanwhile, the Kremlin has claimed that it has no information about the cause of Navalny’s death. The Russian government said that the prison service was conducting all investigations into his death. Russia’s Investigative Committee has started a procedural investigation into the death. Dmitry Muratov, a Russian newspaper editor and Nobel Peace Prize winner, told Reuters that the death of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny was a murder. He said he believed prison conditions led to his death.

It is noteworthy that Russia’s most prominent opposition leader and Putin’s vocal critic Alexei Navalny was sentenced to 19 more years in prison by a Russian court in August last year on charges of extremism. The prison colony where Navalny was serving his sentence is about 1,900 km from Moscow. (1,200 miles) to the northeast The Yamalo-Nenets region is notorious for severe conditions.

Alexey Navalny, who has been on hunger strike for 21 days in jail, is on the verge of death, and is a staunch opponent of Vladimir Putin.

Alexey Navalny is behind bars in Russia since January 2021. Then he returned to Moscow after recovering from the nerve agent poisoning attack in Germany. He held the Russian government responsible for this attack. Before his arrest he campaigned against official corruption and organized large anti-Kremlin protests. Since then he has been sentenced to jail three times. He has rejected all the allegations against him, calling them politically motivated.

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