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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/russian-opposition-leader-alexei-navalnys-body-found-bruised-in-arctic-morgue/56K5ZQQSDJBRNEHDDL4FHW4ABU/

The bruised body of Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, has been found in a hospital morgue in the Arctic, two days after he died in a nearby prison.

A paramedic told Russian opposition media that there were bruises on Navalnys head and chest when his body was brought into the Salekhard District Clinical Hospital.

Such injuries, described by those that saw them, appear from seizures, the unnamed paramedic told the exiled Novaya Gazeta newspaper.

The person convulses, they try to restrain him, and bruises appear. They also said that he also had a bruise on his chest. That is, they still tried to resuscitate him, and he died, most likely, from cardiac arrest.

Russian prison officials said that Navalny died on Friday after falling ill during a short walk at IK-3, a notoriously brutal prison in the Russian Arctic.

Navalnys mother failed to find his body at the morgue in Salekhard on Saturday and his colleagues at the Anti-Corruption Foundation accused the Russian authorities of a cover-up.

Reporters said no autopsy had yet been performed. They also said that two unscheduled flights from Moscow had landed on Saturday at Salekhard, possibly with autopsy specialists.

The first jet landed at about six in the evening. It was met by cars of the Investigative Committee. And the second one arrived an hour and a half later, Novaya Gazeta quoted an unnamed source as saying.

Navalny was Vladimir Putins most serious opponent. Western leaders have accused the Kremlin of murdering him. He was facing three decades in prison on various charges and had been transferred to IK-3 shortly before Christmas.

David Lammy, Britains shadow foreign secretary, said on Sunday that Putin should face war crimes charges for the death of Navalny.

Id like to see Putin in front of that special tribunal, held to account for all of his crimes, not just in Ukraine, but as we are seeing just in the last 48 hours in Russia as well, he told the BBCs Laura Kuenssberg programme on Sunday.

The sudden death of Navalny shocked liberal-minded Russians and triggered rare protests in Russia where demonstrations against the Kremlin are banned.

OVD-Info, a Russian activist group that monitors the Russian police, said that 400 people had been detained across Russia, mainly for laying flowers for Navalny at memorials to Soviet repression.
Reports from across Russia said that the plain-clothes security services, often wearing surgical masks, were following people who had laid flowers. Different police forces appeared to respond differently, with some blocking access to memorial sites and others tearing them down.

These were the biggest nationwide protests in Russia against the authorities since September 2022, when Putin ordered a mobilisation to recruit soldiers for his war in Ukraine.

Analysts said that the timing of Navalnys death is important for the Kremlin which wants to use a presidential election next month to showcase support for Putins invasion of Ukraine.

Ben Noble and Nikolai Petrov, both Fellows on the Russia Programme at Chatham House, said that the death of Navalny had undermined Russias beleaguered, fragmented and exiled opposition.
There is no obvious figure to take up the role that Navalny crafted for himself, of Vladimir Putins main opponent. There will be no Navalny 2.0 in the short-term, at least, they said.

On Sunday Navalnys wife, Yulia, posted a new picture of the two of them together on social media, writing I love you.

The post on Instagram showed a picture of the two together, their heads touching as they watched a performance of some kind.
Navalnys death has had deep reverberations.

Donald Trump, who has been accused of withholding funding and weapons from Ukraine via Congress, came under fire on Sunday for his continued silence over Navalnys death.

The fact that he wont acknowledge anything with Navalny either he sides with Putin and thinks its cool that Putin killed one of his political opponents, or he just doesnt think its that big of a deal, Nikki Haley, his only Republican rival for the presidential nomination, said on ABCs This Week.
Either one of those is concerning. Either one of those is a problem, added the Republican candidate, who is trailing far behind Mr Trump in the race for their partys nomination.

Navalnys still-unexplained death at 47 in a prison in Russias Arctic has drawn powerful condemnations from leaders around the world, starting with Joe Biden, the US president, who has squarely blamed Putin.

I can believe it was a seizure.

Oh shit I dropped this oops
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strychnine

They probably beat him to death.

Bat178 posted...

They probably beat him to death.

this...

WingsOfGood posted...

Such injuries, described by those that saw them, appear from seizures, the unnamed paramedic told the exiled Novaya Gazeta newspaper.

The person convulses, they try to restrain him, and bruises appear. They also said that he also had a bruise on his chest. That is, they still tried to resuscitate him, and he died, most likely, from cardiac arrest.

So anonymous source and then this person goes "they". So this isn't a first hand account. It is a person talking about hearing from other people what happened?

They literally locked him away in the Arctic for opposing Putin. They don't need to murder him directly when the conditions can do it alone.

BlueTigerLion posted...

So anonymous source and then this person goes "they". So this isn't a first hand account. It is a person talking about hearing from other people what happened?

It sounds like they asked an unrelated medic about witness statements.

Tyranthraxus posted...

It sounds like they asked an unrelated medic about witness statements.

Yea. I do think Putin had the dude killed. Just think this story isn't based on a good source. The guy died in a prison. Couldn't they speak to a prisoner who saw what happened. Or even whoever was this "they still tried to resuscitate him". Instead it is someone saying they heard this is what happened.

BlueTigerLion posted...

Yea. I do think Putin had the dude killed. Just think this story isn't based on a good source. The guy died in a prison. Couldn't they speak to a prisoner who saw what happened. Or even whoever was this "they still tried to resuscitate him". Instead it is someone saying they heard this is what happened.

The seizure thing isn't really that far fetched especially when you consider that there's ways to cause seizures even in people that don't have epilepsy.

The poison I linked earlier is the most direct and only guaranteed way to do it, but you can also get seizures from COVID, fevers, or just not sleeping which is common in hard labor camps (if North Korea is to be believed, that is how Warmbier died). The prison he was at was designed to kill him.