Anti-corruption campaigner Navalny dies in jail

RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS - In Brief 16 Feb 2024 by Alex Teddy
On February 16 the news was announced with no official cause of death yet. A pro-Kremlin TV channel suggested it was a blood clot. A doctor who often examined Navalny said this was impossible to determine without an autopsy. He was being held in a remote northern prison.  Navalny had been well known as an anti-corruption campaigner since 2008. As a corporate lawyer he bought shares in companies he suspected of corruption. This allowed him to attend shareholders' meetings and ask probing questions. He became an opposition figure. He sought to run for president years ago but was banned.  Navalny was arrested on many occasions. This was his third jail sentence. He was serving 19 years for founding an extremist organisation and for parole violations. In 2020 Navalny was poisoned and went to Germany for life-saving treatment. He then posed as a senior FSB officer and phoned a junior FSB officer whom Navalny believed had been involved in the poisoning. The FSB officer told him everything, not realizing the call was being recorded and was later broadcast. In 2021 Navalny returned to Russia where he was immediately arrested. He was held in ever harsher conditions. The prison service "lost" him for 10 days in 2024. He was held in an isolator cell for 270 days despite 15 days being the maximum allowed by law. He repeatedly complained about the conditions he was held in. On February 15 Navalny appeared in a video to speak in a court case. He was very thin but apart from that, seemed energetic.  The Anti-Corruption Foundation which Navalny established was outlawed as a so-called "extremist organization" in 2021. World leaders expressed their sadness at Navalny's death and blamed t...

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