Russian President Vladimir Putin’s chief critic and opposer Alexei Navalny has died in jail, according to Russian prison services, at the age of 47.
Navalny was being held in a jail near the Arctic Circle, where he had been sentenced to work at a penal colony for 19 years. Putin critics are frequently imprisoned for opposing the Russian president, and some are even assassinated.
No information on Navalny’s cause of death has been released. Prison authorities said Navalny had taken a walk outside and wasn’t feeling well when he returned, before losing consciousness, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Navalny previously survived a poisoning attempt in 2020 that put him in a coma. He was evacuated to Germany for treatment, but was sentenced to 30 years in prison on his return, for violating his
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