The widow of Russian opposition chief Alexei Navalny has stated two impartial laboratory checks on organic samples taken from her late husband present he was poisoned earlier than his loss of life.
In a video assertion launched on Wednesday, Yulia Navalnaya stated international laboratories had carried out checks “independently of each other” – and repeated earlier claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin was concerned in her husband’s loss of life.
She stated: “These labs in two different countries reached the same conclusion – Alexei was killed. More specifically, he was poisoned.”
Ms Navalnaya stated the checks befell after “we were able to obtain samples of Alexei’s biological material and securely smuggle them abroad” in February 2024.
She referred to as for the labs which carried out the checks to “publish their results” and reveal what she referred to as the “inconvenient truth”.
No additional particulars got in regards to the checks.
Ms Navalnaya stated: “Alexei was my husband. He was my friend. He was a symbol of hope for our country. Putin killed that hope. We have the right to know how he did it.
“Cease pandering to Putin on account of so-called greater concerns. When you stay silent, he doesn’t cease.”
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Yulia Navalnaya together with her husband in 2014. Pic: AP
She opened the video by saying her husband – an outspoken critic towards Mr Putin – “died in a penal colony beyond the Arctic Circle” and had been transferred to the “closed off place” two months earlier than his loss of life.
“All he had was six square metres of space, a cup, a toothbrush and a bed fixed to the wall during the day so it’s not possible to lie on it,” she stated.
Ms Navalnaya added: “It was in this punishment cell that they killed him.”
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Mr Navalny, 47, died on 16 February 2024 in a Russian jail. The federal jail service stated he had develop into unwell after a stroll.
When requested about Ms Navalnaya’s remarks on Wednesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated: “I don’t know anything about these statements of hers, and I can’t say anything.”
Mr Navalny voluntarily returned to Russia in 2021 from Germany, the place he underwent therapy for what Western laboratory checks confirmed was an try and poison him with a nerve agent in Siberia.
He was arrested on arrival and was serving sentences on fraud, extremism and different costs that he stated have been trumped as much as silence him.
