Russian opposition leader Navalny dies in prison

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died in prison, as confirmed by Russian Federal Penitentiary Service.
On Wednesday, the 14ht of February, Navalny’s press-secretary reported that her client was put in solitary confinement for the 27th time.
According to Russian authorities, Navalny lost consciousness after his return from a walk.
An ambulance was called in. The ambulance crew that arrived attempted reanimation. However, efforts failed and the patient died.
Navalny’s defence attorney Leonid Solovyev announced in his interview to Novaya Gazeta that in accordance with the wishes of the political activist’s family he will not comment this situation.
All he said is that when he visited his client on Wednesday everything seemed “fine”.
Alaxei Navalny was 47 years old.
Navalny was detained in January 2021 upon his return from Germany, where he was undergoing treatment after the poisoning attempt many believe was orchestrated by the Russian Federal Security Service.
In February of the same year Navalny was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for violating the terms of the conditional prison sentence imposed on him in 2014. In March of 2022 he was sentenced to nine more years in prison for “fraud” and “disrespecting the court of law”. In August 2023 he was sentenced to 19 years in prison for “extremism”.
At the end of December 2023 Navalny was moved to a special prison built in the 1960s on the site of a former labour camp.
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