Putin told Russia must face consequences after Alexei Navalny dies in prison
Russia must face consequences over the death of Alexei Navalny, leaders from around the world have said – pointing the finger squarely at the Kremlin as being responsible for the brutal murder of Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critic.
Navalny, 47, had recently been moved to a jail near the Arctic Circle where he was serving a sentence of almost two decades on charges that supporters and much of the international community believe were trumped up in order to silence him. It was the prison service that announced the news.
And in a defiant statement at the Munich Security Conference, Navalny’s wife Yulia warned Putin and “his friends that they will not go unpunished”.
“I don’t know whether to believe the news, the terrible news that we are receiving only from the state sources in Russia,” she said, adding that Putin and his government are “always lying”. Navalny’s team said his lawyer was urgently flying there, but could not confirm his death.
However, Yulia added: “If this is true, I want Putin, his entire entourage... his government to know that they will bear responsibility for what they did to our country, to my family, to my husband".
The federal prison. An ambulance arrived to try to rehabilitate him, but he died, the statement added.
