Current Events > Alexei Navalny dies in jail

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RIP

At least he didn't fall out a window

... did he?

HylianFox posted...

At least he didn't fall out a window

... did he?

pretty sure slowly rotting in Gulag is worse

Details are sparse, and I don't exactly have confidence in Russian press releases.

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/16/1231946376/alexei-navalny-death-in-prison-vladimir-putin-opposition

I didn't see this topic before making own

MOSCOW Alexei Navalny, Russia's most prominent political opposition figure, has died in a remote Russian prison at age 47.
News of Navalny's death came Friday from the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, above the Arctic Circle.
In a statement, prison authorities said Navalny "felt unwell" after a walk in the prison yard and soon lost consciousness. Attempts by emergency medics to resuscitate him "failed to give positive results."
Navalny had been serving out a lengthy prison sentence for charges including extremism, which were widely seen as punishment for his years of criticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Putin has been informed of Navalny's death. He said prison medics are working to identify the cause of death.
Reactions swiftly poured in from around the world. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Navalny's "death in a Russian prison and the fixation and fear of one man only underscores the weakness and rot at the heart of the system that Putin has built. Russia is responsible for this."
Concerns over Navalny's well-being and safety while in prison were long-standing.
His family members and supporters say authorities repeatedly denied Navalny medical care and subjected him to long, punishing stints in solitary confinement with the apparent aim of preventing his access to the outside world. A representative of his Anti-Corruption Foundation in Washington, D.C., expressed the belief in April that Navalny was slowly being poisoned in prison.
Yet a video shared by Russia's independent SOTA news service appeared to show Navalny looking healthy and in good spirits during a court hearing the day before his death. Navalny was participating by video feed.
Navalny had been serving out a 19-year prison sentence on charges including extremism, embezzlement and fraud widely seen as Kremlin retribution for his political activities.
A vehement critic of President Putin for more than a decade, Navalny built a national following with campaigns that channeled public outrage over corruption at the highest level of government and promoted a vision that Russians could, one day, live differently.
Even from his prison cell, he was a critic of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Putin's increasingly repressive rule.
Indeed, in the days before his disappearance in December, the opposition figure unveiled a campaign to rally Russians against Putin when he runs for a fifth term as president in elections scheduled for March."

Imprisoned for daring to stand against Putin and now killed most likely by poison or lack of care in a frozen hellhole. March Putin is holding fake elections.

That's ok, there's another topic I didn't see before making this one.

CE moves pretty fast, and there's no longer a dedicated board for this kind of thing.

The world should have pressured for his release. We should have gotten him out

fuck. that really sucks ass. dude was already poisoned a couple years back. they probably just did it again. it was inevitable but damn those evil assholes.

rip

Putin finally gets a win.

RIP to Navalny, a brave man who never backed down.

Yeah. "dies". Sometimes it just happens, you know? Like, oopsies. Especially in Russia

Russia scum downplay their shitty government

Sergei Mironov, leader of pro-Kremlin A Just Russia party, said in a statement that Russias enemies benefit from Navalnys death.
Of course, health issues could have been the cause of death. But in any case, a premature death of a notorious opposition figure, especially a month before the presidential election, is beneficial first and foremost to Russias enemies.
Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the immediate reaction of NATO leaders to Navalnys death in the form of direct accusations against Russia is self-exposing.

US President Joe Biden says he holds Russian President Vladimir Putin responsible after the Russian prison service announced that opposition figure Alexey Navalny has died in prison.
Make no mistake: Putin is responsible for Navalnys death, he said. Putin does not only target citizens of other countries, as weve seen in whats going on in Ukraine right now he also inflicts terrible crimes on his own people, the president added.
The president said he was outraged by the news.
Navalny bravely stood up to the corruption, the violence, and all the bad things that the Putin government was doing. In response, Putin had him poisoned, he had him arrested, he had him prosecuted for fabricated crimes, Biden said.
Even in prison, he was a powerful voice for the truth, he said.
He could have lived safely in exile after the assassination attempt on him in 2020, which nearly killed him, he said. Instead, he returned to Russia knowing hed likely be imprisoned, maybe killed if he continued his work. But he did it anyway. Because he believed so deeply in his country, in Russia, the president continued.

Moscow prosecutor's office warns protests related to Navalny's death are not authorized
From CNN's Niamh Kennedy
The prosecutor's office in Moscow has warned that any demonstrations in the Russian capital over the reported death of Alexey Navalny have not been authorized.
In a statement posted on its official website Friday, the prosecutor addressed individuals considering participating in a "mass action" in Moscow city center.

"We draw attention to the fact that this mass event has not been coordinated with the city's executive authorities in accordance with the procedure established by law," the prosecutor stressed.

The prosecutor warned that both appeals to participate and participation in unauthorized mass actions constitute offenses under Russian law and could result in individuals being placed under administrative arrest.

Zikten posted...

The world should have pressured for his release. We should have gotten him out

bro he got poisoned in an assassination attempt and when he was recovering in a German hospital because Russia wouldn't treat him, he was charged with contempt of court for missing a hearing
they weren't going to just let him go, they were absolutely planning on killing him from the beginning