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Alexei Navalny at a rally in memory of politician Boris Nemtsov, who was murdered in 2015, in Moscow, February 24, 2019. Tatyana Makeyeva / Portal
Bruises were found on Alexei Navalny's body, the opposition media added.
Alexei Navalny, Vladimir Putin's main opponent, died suddenly at the age of 47 on Friday, January 16, in an Arctic penal colony where he served a total of more than thirty years in prison. According to the opposition media Novaia Gazeta Europe, his body is said to be in the Salekhard district hospital (Siberia).
According to Russian media, no autopsy has yet been carried out. “Some claimed that the order came from Moscow to wait for specialists in the capital, others claimed that the doctors themselves refused to conduct an autopsy. “This is a political question and we don’t know exactly what will happen next,” said a district paramedic.
The latter claims to have learned that bruises were found on Alexei Navalny's body. According to the same source, these injuries were due to “cramps.”
“Murderers” are trying to “cover their tracks,” says Navalny’s family
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Yesterday the body of the political opponent was nowhere to be found. For his relatives – who went to the morgue indicated by the authorities without finding the remains there – the “murderers” tried to “cover their tracks”. According to the administration, “the causes of death [étaient] is founded”.
According to the Russian Penitentiary Service (FSIN), Alexei Navalny died on Friday after a sudden illness. “On February 16, 2024, in Penitentiary No. 3, detainee Navalny AA felt unwell after a walk and almost immediately lost consciousness,” the FSIN of the Arctic Yamal region said in a press release. “All necessary resuscitation measures were carried out but did not produce any positive result. “The emergency doctors declared the patient dead,” he said.