The widow of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who died in a Russian camp prison, was invited to the deliberations of European foreign ministers in Brussels on Monday. In Russia, more than 150 people have been sentenced to prison for public expressions of grief since the Kremlin critic’s death.
As the EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell further reported on Platform
EU Council President Charles Michel also wants to receive Yulia Navalnaya. On Friday, at the Munich Security Conference, she called for a fight against President Vladimir Putin’s Russian power apparatus in a much-praised speech.
There was great consternation after Navalny’s death. According to Russian authorities, the Kremlin critic, 47, who was physically weakened after many days in repeated solitary confinement, collapsed on Friday while walking in his Siberian prison camp in freezing temperatures and died shortly afterwards.
More than 150 prison sentences for publicly commemorating Navalny
Since then, people around the world have gathered for public mourning at monuments to the victims of political repression and lit candles – including in Russia. In St. Petersburg alone, 154 people were sentenced this weekend to up to two weeks in prison for violating Russia’s strict assembly laws.
Thousands are demanding that Navalny’s body be returned to relatives
Many heads of state and politicians are calling for a full and speedy investigation into Navalny’s death, and there has been an outpouring of criticism against the Kremlin, which has even been accused of “murder.” Only US presidential candidate Donald Trump is hesitant to make a donation.
‘Trail of the killers must be covered up’
Pressure is growing on Russian authorities to release the 47-year-old’s body to his relatives. Navalny’s supporters accuse Russian authorities of preventing his body from being handed over to cover the tracks of his “killers.” “It was not death, it was murder,” said Navalny’s close ally Leonid Volkov. According to an eyewitness, Navalny’s body was covered in bruises.
Source: Krone
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