The wife of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya, said this Friday (16) that Russian President Vladimir Putin and those around him “will pay” for her husband's death in an Arctic prison.
“This is terrible news that comes to us, news that we only receive from the official media. For many years, we could not believe either Putin or his government. They constantly lie. But if this is true, I would like Putin and everyone around him to those around you – your government, your friends – know that they will be punished for what they did to our country, to my family and to my husband,” Navalnaya said.
“They will be brought to justice and that day will come soon”, he reinforced, in a brief statement at the Security Conference in Munich, where he received support in the form of applause from the participants.
Navalnaya also made an appeal to the international community and all people in the world asking for unity in the fight against the “evil” that Putin represents.
“We must unite and fight this evil. We must fight this horrible regime in Russia. This regime and Vladimir Putin must be held personally responsible for all the atrocities they have committed in our country in recent years,” he said.
In December last year, Navalny was transferred from a prison in the Vladimir region, less than 200 kilometers from Moscow, to a prison in the Arctic Circle, close to the Ural mountain range, where he died today, according to the Russian prison services.
Navalny was convicted in a case described as politically motivated when he returned to Russia with his wife in 2021, after leaving Berlin, where he had recovered from a poisoning the previous year, which was allegedly the work of the Federal Security Service, according to his allies.
On December 7, Navalny asked from prison for Russians to vote against Putin in the March 17, 2024 elections. (With EFE Agency)
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