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According to prison services in the far northern Yamal-Nenets region Navalny started to feel bad after a walk in the prison yard. He fell unconscious and provided medical aid, the Russian authority informs.
“All possible emergency assistance was provided, but it gave no positive results. The ambulance doctors confirmed the death of the prisoner,” the message reads.
“The cause of death is being looked into,” it adds.
Notice from prison services in the Yamal Nenets region about the death of Aleksei Navalny.
Aleksei Navalny had been sentenced to 19 years of jail for his opposition to Vladimir Putin. He was behind bars in a prison in Vladimir region before he in late 2023 was transferred to the far northern prison camp in Kharp.
After more than three weeks of unknown whereabouts, the jailed politician in late 2023 appeared in Colony No 3 in Kharp.
Shortly after he arrived to the settlement located north of the Arctic Circle, one of his lawyers showed up by the prison gate to meet the inmate.
In a long tweet, Navalny with humour describes his new place of confinement.
“Well, I now have a sheepskin coat, an ushanka hat (a fur hat with ear-covering flaps), and soon I will get valenki (a traditional Russian winter footwear). I have grown a beard for the 20 days of my transportation,” he wrote on X.
Navalny argued that he looks a bit like Santa Clause. But he still has not seen any reindeer, only very beautiful shepherd dogs, he said.
This story is being updated
