Jailed Russian opposition leader and political activist Alexei Navalny died in an Arctic penal colony Friday, according to Russia’s prison service. The Kremlin has yet to offer a cause of death, but Russian authorities said Navalny became unwell after a walk and then collapsed. Officials around the world have cautioned that the death has not been independently confirmed.
Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s most vocal critic and Russia’s most prominent political prisoner, was serving a 19-year sentence on extremism charges that were widely condemned as politically motivated by the international community, and which Navalny maintained were unjust.
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