The opposition leader received a visit from his mother last week, was placed in solitary confinement and appeared in court, among other things.
This is what is known about the last days of Alexei Navalny, considered enemy number one of the Kremlin: passed away this Friday in a prison in the Arctic Circle.
12th of February
Navalni’s mother, Lyudmila Navalnaya, visits his son in the IK-3 prison in the city of Jarp, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District. “He was healthy and happy to be alive,” Navalnaya wrote on Facebook.
February 14th
The prison management called polar wolf sent Navalni to a isolation cell for the fourth time since arriving at the end of 2023.
Previously, the 47-year-old opposition leader was locked up in an solitary cell for ten days, from February 1 to 11. It was the twenty-seventh time that the opponent was punished with this method since his arrest, in January 2021, at Moscow airport.
It is precisely his long stay in isolation cells, with extreme confinement conditions, that could have seriously damaged the opponent’s health, ultimately leading to his death, according to human rights defenders and journalists.
That same day, on Navalni’s social networks, send a message in his name, addressed to his wife Yulia, to congratulate her on Valentine’s Day: “I feel every second that you are by my side and I love you more and more.”
15 February
Despite being punished, the prison administration allows Navalny to participate in one court hearing by video conference. During that appearance, the opposition politician criticized with his usual irony the fines that the courts continued to impose on him despite his stay in prison: “Your Majesty, I will send you the number of my bank account so that you can send me money from your huge salary of federal judge , because I’m running out of money because of his decisions.
February 16
The Russian prison authorities announce it sudden death of Navalny in prison and vow to investigate the circumstances surrounding his death.
The opposing co-religionists do not believe the initial information from the authorities and send Navalny’s lawyer to the Lobo Arctic prison to learn firsthand the circumstances of what happened.
Source: EITB
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