Alexeï Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's bête noire, died on Friday in the Siberian prison where He was serving a 19-year sentence. From prison. This news, announced by the prison services, caused outrage in many Western countries.
The secretary general of theHIM, Antonio Guterres, through his spokesperson, requested a complete, credible and transparent investigation about the death of Alexei Navalny.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called monster Vladimir Putin, who will repress anyone who fights for the freedom of the Russian people .
Vladimir Putin must be held personally responsible and around for the atrocities committed against Alexeï Navalny, his wife Yulia Navalnaïa reacted in Germany.
The opponent has he paid for his courage with his life lamented German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who said that very sad .
French President Emmanuel Macron, for his part, expressed his Rage and his indignation . In today's Russia, free spirits are locked up in the gulag and sentenced to death. he denounced.
In the opinion of former Russian world chess champion Garry Kasparov, Putin failed to kill Navalny quickly and secretly by poisoning him, and has now murdered him slowly and publicly in prison. .
Navalny was murdered for exposing Putin and his mafia as the criminals and thieves that they are.
A murdered Alexei Navalny will be a greater threat to the dictator than a living Alexei Navalny. The dictator can no longer do anything against Navalny, Navalny is dead and has become immortal declared the Russian writer Boris Akunin, who has lived in exile since 2014. He will end up burying Putin.
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The prison administration explained in a press release that Mr. Navalny, who was in center No. 3, He felt unwell after a walk and almost immediately lost consciousness. .
Emergency services tried in vain to save him, the prison services said, adding that all necessary resuscitation measures were carried out without giving positive results.
The doctors would have passed more than 30 minutes trying to revive him.
Mr. Navalny's death was confirmed by emergency doctors, according to the prison services, who at the moment are not saying anything about the causes of death.
Alexei Navalny, 47, was serving a 19-year prison sentence for extremism in a remote penal colony in Siberia. He was the subject of numerous trials widely denounced as political and intended to punish him for his opposition to President Vladimir Putin.
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During several hearings in trials in which he had participated by video in recent months, he appeared emaciated and aged. He had suffered health problems related to a hunger strike andpoisoning he suffered in 2020 .
Despite the difficult conditions of detention, their determination has not been undermined. The opponent criticized the Kremlin strongman from the courts, calling him a grandfather hiding in a bunker because President Putin rarely appears in public.
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People gathered in Paris after learning of the death of Russian opponent Alexei Navalny. In particular, a woman holds a sheet of paper on which we can read: “Putin, murderer.”
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During his trial for extremism Navalny did not stop severely criticizing the war that Moscow is waging against Ukraine, the war the stupidest and craziest of 21my century .
In a message of 1is In February, broadcast by his team on social networks, he called for demonstrations throughout Russia on the occasion of the presidential elections scheduled for March 15-17. that would allow Putin to remain in power .
The victory of the Russian president seems certain, because his opponents, Navalny at the head, have been imprisoned or forced into exile in recent years. And the repression has increased even further since the start of Moscow's attack on Ukraine, launched on February 24, 2022.
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Accusations unacceptable says Moscow
The Kremlin has argued that Western accusations and criticism of Russia are absolutely unacceptable while ensuring that he does not immediately know the cause of death.
There is no information about the cause of death and yet statements of this type continue to come. [...] We consider such statements to be absolutely unacceptable. declared Dmitri Peskov, spokesman for Vladimir Putin, quoted by Russian news agencies.
Moscow authorities, for their part, warned Russians against any demonstrations, while people queued at night to lay flowers in several Russian cities at monuments to political dissidents.
Russian Telegram channels specialized in monitoring the repression of protest actions reported arrests in several cities, including the Russian capital.
With information from Agence France-Presse