The wife of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Wednesday that a laboratory analysis of smuggled biological samples found that he was poisoned to death while in prison in February 2024.
Navalny, the most powerful critic of President Vladimir Putin for years, died in mysterious circumstances while being sentenced to 19 years in prison for a string of charges, was his retribution to his opposition.
The charismatic anti-corruption campaigner announced the bad achievements of Putin’s inner circle in the anti-Kremlin protests, convening thousands of Russian protests in the anti-Kremlin protests.
His allies have been murdered and Moscow has never fully explained the cause of his death, saying only that he was sick while walking in the prison yard on February 16, 2024.
Before he was buried, his wife Yulia Navalnaya said his allies were “able to obtain and safely transfer biological samples from Alexis”.
“The labs in both countries concluded: designation: poisoning,” she said in a video posted on social media.
She did not disclose details or analysis results of which samples were obtained, but she urged the lab to release its results independently and specify which poisons they thought were used.
Navalnaya also published unverified photos, saying the body was removed and said a pile of vomit was displayed on the floor and claimed that testimony from prison officials said he had encountered it on the floor.
‘murder’
Navalny was previously poisoned by a Novichok-type neurotoxic agent while running in Siberia in 2020 and flew to Germany with an emergency evacuation flight, where he spent several months recovering.
He was sentenced to jail after returning to Russia in January 2021 and was convicted on a series of charges, including “extremism.”
He continued to oppose Putin and ghosts from prison, opposing the invasion of Ukraine.
Russian authorities said he died suddenly while wandering around his prison colony after lunch.
After Navalny’s death, officials refused for several days and released their bodies to relatives, raising suspicion from their followers.
Navanaya insists that her husband was killed on Putin’s order, which was a charge she repeated on Wednesday. “Vladimir Putin was guilty of murder by my husband, Alexei Navalny,” she said.
The Kremlin denies the charges.
Even after his death, it cracked down on his allies and opponents, adding Nawanaya to the blacklist of “terrorists and extremists” and sentenced his lawyers and journalists who followed his court case to prison.
Most of his family and major allies have long lived abroad.
After Navalny’s death, Russia’s opposition was in trouble and he had been fighting for exile after Navalny’s death.
Since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the public has shown that opposition to Putin within Russia has become unusually rare.
The Kremlin introduced a military censorship that strengthened its objectives for disbanders and critics and was effectively dependent on the Kremlin and the invasion.
