Navalny, Putin’s staunchest enemy, He died in prison on Friday at the age of 47.as reported by the country’s prison service.
Navalny became unwell after a walk on Friday and lost consciousness, explained the Federal Penitentiary Service in a statement. The doctors who arrived at the penal colony where he was serving his sentence They tried to revive him for half an hour, but he died. according to official sources.
In what was his last public appearance, Navalny stood in a cell and dressed in a black robe. He seemed to be in good spirits despite being held in a harsh prison above the Arctic Circle. Joking, He asked the judge for part of his “enormous salary.” “Because I’m running out of money thanks to your decisions,” Navalny said, referring to the multiple fines imposed on him, according to a video published by Sotavision, a Russian media outlet.
According to Sotavision, Navalny complained about being the only prisoner confined in a cell of harsh punishments who was also forced to work in the prison sewing workshop. When he didn’t, he was fined, he said.
Navalny was involved in multiple court cases against the Russian prison service. He complained about a lack of access to adequate medical and dental care and a lack of writing tools. He also complained about not having the right to have a Bible in his cell.
Navalny also took advantage of his court appearances to express his political opinions. On February 8, called on Russians to vote for any candidate except President Vladimir Putin in next month’s presidential election.
In January, Navalny had also been in good spirits in another video, in which he joked about his prison uniform and the lack of Christmas gifts because, he said, he was “quite far away.”
Despite its isolation, Navalny was still connected and sending messages on his social networks through his lawyers. Generally, they were about his life in prison or criticism of Putin.
One of his last posts was for the celebration of Valentine’s Day, or Valentine’s Day, on Wednesday, with an image in which he was shown with his wife, Yulia. “Love, with you everything is like in a song: between us there are cities, the takeoff lights of airfields, blue snowstorms and thousands of kilometers. But I feel that you are close every second and I love you more and more”the message said.
For her part, the activist’s mother, Lyudmila, said she did not want to hear any condolences yet. According to Novaya Gazeta, a Russian media outlet that cited his Facebook account, The woman said she had seen her son “alive, healthy and happy” on her last visit to prison, last Monday.
Navalny, who was serving a 19-year sentence on extremism charges, was transferred in December from a prison in Vladimir, central Russia, to a “special regime” penal colony – the highest level of security in the Russian prison system – above the Arctic Circle.
His allies called his transfer to the prison in Kharp, a town in the Yamalo-Nenets region, about 1,900 kilometers northeast of Moscow, as another attempt to force Navalny into silence.
Source: Ambito
