Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny dead at 47, region’s prison service says
Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died, the prison service of the Yamalo-Nenets region where he has been serving his sentence said on Friday.
Mr Navalny, one of the most vocal critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin, had been in prison since February 2021.
Late last year, he was moved to a penal colony in the Arctic Circle.
Russian state news agency TASS reported that Putin had been told of Mr Navalny’s death.
In a statement, the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District said Mr Navalny “felt unwell” after a walk on Friday, and “almost immediately lost consciousness”.
It said that medical staff had been called, but that they were unable to resuscitate Mr Navalny.
It said the reason of death was being established.
I think we can guess what and indeed who the cause of death was. The only thing I wonder is what took Putin so long to do it. And the president of Latvia is coming right out and saying Putin murdered Navalny, so I guess it’s a matter of time before he gets too close to a dangerously open window too…
