Navalny was in prison in Siberia at the time of his death. In December, he was missing for three weeks.
Information about a Russian opposition politician To Alexei Navalny of death reached the world today, Friday, February 16.
Navalnyi spent the last days of his more than 20-year prison sentence in the IK-3 penitentiary in northwestern Siberia.
Before this, Navalnyi was missing for almost three weeks in December. Contact with the opposition leader ended unexpectedly in early December, when lawyers were prevented from visiting him. Navalnyi was finally found at the end of December in the IK-3 penal colony in Siberia. Before this, Navalnyi was in the IK-6 penal colony in the village of Melohovo starting in June.
Navalnyi received a prison sentence on charges of extremism. The verdicts were widely seen as political. Navalny’s sentence was extended in the summer and the court ordered that the man be transferred to a “special arrangements†prison.
The new prison was harsh, completely isolated from the outside world
Head of Navalny’s anti-corruption organization by Ivan Ždanov by IK-3 is †one of the northernmost and most isolated penal colonies†in Russia.
– The conditions are harsh there. It is very difficult to get there, and there is no functioning postal service, Ždanov writes on the message service X.
Navalny’s close aide Leonid Volkov according to the penal colony is in practice completely isolated from the outside world.
In the January hearing, Navalnyi joked about Arctic weather, among other things. The hearing dealt with Navalny’s complaint about keeping him in solitary confinement.
December’s disappearance is believed to be related to Putin’s election campaign
Navalny’s allies have said that the disappearance in December and the transfer to harsher conditions are linked to the Russian president Vladimir Putin to the announcement to run for the so-called presidential elections to be held this spring.
The United States said at the time that it was deeply concerned about Navalny’s disappearance.
The Russian administration stated that, for example, the interference of the United States in the situation of “a prisoner convicted before the law†is in no way acceptable.