According to Russian jail officials, Navalny passed away last week in the Arctic correctional camp following a stroll. But contradictory reports on the cause of death surfaced, casting doubt on the investigation's integrity among Navalny's followers.
Longtime adversary of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Navalny has been imprisoned since 2021 after returning to his home country after suffering a nearly fatal nerve agent poisoning, which he attributed to the Kremlin. His unexpected passing dealt a fatal blow to Putin’s detractors and provoked fury throughout the world. Western politicians, among them US President Joe Biden, accused Putin of being to blame.
On Friday and Saturday, hundreds of people showed their support for Navalny by swarming impromptu memorials and monuments honoring victims of political persecution with flowers and candles. These events took place in dozens of Russian towns. Over 401 persons had been arrested by police by Saturday night, according to the rights organization OVD-Info, which keeps tabs on political arrests and offers legal assistance. Russia’s second-largest city, St Petersburg, was the source of more than half of the arrests.
Moscow: According to a well-known rights organization, over 400 individuals were imprisoned in Russia as they paid their condolences to opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who passed away at a remote Arctic prison camp. A priest from the Apostolic Orthodox Church was among those detained; he was taken into custody on Saturday outside his residence and might face jail time and fines.
After announcing on social media that he would be hosting a memorial service for Navalny, Apostolic Orthodox Church priest Grigory Mikhnov-Voitenko was detained outside of his residence. He was arrested for planning a protest and put in a holding cell at a police precinct, however OVD-Info said that he later suffered a stroke and had to be hospitalized.
Court authorities said late on Saturday that 42 of the people seized on Friday had been ordered to spend one to six days in jail by St. Petersburg courts, while nine others had been fined. OVD-Info reports that at least six individuals in Moscow received orders to spend fifteen days in prison. According to the organization, two additional people were imprisoned in the city of Bryansk and one more in the southern city of Krasnodar.
Concerns surround Navalny’s passing still.
On Friday, Russian jail officials said that Navalny had been ill on a stroll at a detention facility. He nearly passed out almost instantly, and all attempts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful. Serving a 30-year sentence at a “special regime” prisoner colony above the Arctic Circle—the highest security category of prisons in the nation—Navansky has been a lifelong and ferocious opponent of Putin and the Kremlin. After his return to Russia, he was sentenced to three years in jail.
Less compared to a month before a presidential election that would extend Putin’s six-year term in office, the unexpected discovery incited additional fury and condemnation against the head of the Kremlin, who has clamped down on domestic dissent. The politician was “murdered,” according to Navalny’s team on Saturday, and they accused the government of intentionally postponing the body’s release. Navalny’s mother and attorneys received contradictory data from the numerous organizations they visited in their search for the body.
According to Navalny’s representative Kira Yarmysh, a message given to Navalny’s mother said that he passed away on Friday at 2:17 p.m. As his mother came at the prison colony on Saturday, officials informed her that her son had died from “sudden death syndrome,” according to Ivan Zhdanov, the director of Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, who posted on X, the former name for Twitter. Through a video hookup to the court, Navalny was seen laughing only the day before he passed away. He laughed and asked a judge to top up his own account with a portion of his enormous income.
Yulia Navalnaya, the late politician’s wife, made her first Instagram post following her husband’s unexplained death in jail. She shared a heartfelt moment with Navalny and captioned it, “I Love You”. She had already delivered a stirring address at the Munich Security Conference in which she warned that Putin and his allies will face consequences for the killing of Navalny.
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