MOSCOW, Feb 18 (Reuters) – Alexei Navalny, Russian President Vladimir Putin's most distinguished home foe, died on Friday within the Arctic jail the place he was serving a three-decade jail sentence.
What do we all know, and don't know, about dying?
THE DEATH
Navalny was imprisoned within the IK-3 penal colony north of the Arctic Circle positioned in Kharp within the Yamal®-Nenets area about 1,900 km (1,200 miles) northeast of Moscow.
His dying was introduced by the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District at 2:19 pm Moscow time (1119 GMT) on February 16.
“On February 16, 2024, within the penal colony quantity 3, the convict Navalny AA felt sick after a stroll, virtually instantly misplaced consciousness.
“The establishment's medical employees arrived instantly, and an ambulance group was referred to as.
“All the required resuscitation measures have been carried out, which didn’t give constructive outcomes. The ambulance medical doctors declared the dying of the convict. The causes of dying have been established.”
No additional particulars in regards to the dying got by the jail service or medical officers.
“SUDDEN DEATH SYNDROME”
Navalny's spouse, Yulia, talking in Munich a couple of hours after the announcement, mentioned she didn’t know whether or not or to not imagine the information due to what she mentioned have been Russia's lies.
However on Saturday, Navalny's spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, confirmed that Navalny had died.
His 69-year-old mom, Lyudmila, had a dying warning, Yarmysh mentioned. The time of dying in that discover was 2:17 pm native time (0917 GMT) on February 16, Yarmysh mentioned.
“When the lawyer and Alexei's mom got here to the colony this morning, they mentioned that the reason for Navalny's dying was sudden dying syndrome,” mentioned Ivan Zhdanov, who heads the Basis Anti- Corruption of Navalny.
“Sudden dying syndrome” is a obscure time period for varied cardiac syndromes that trigger sudden cardiac arrest and dying.
An unidentified supply informed state-controlled RT that Navalny died of a blood clot.
THE BODY
It was unclear the place Navalny's physique was.
His mom had been informed that the physique had been taken to Salekhard, the city close to the jail complicated, however when she arrived on the morgue it was closed.
When contacted by Navalny's lawyer, the morgue mentioned it didn’t have Navalny's physique, Yarmysh mentioned.
Officers later informed him that the physique wouldn’t be handed over till the investigation was full, although he had beforehand been informed that the investigation had uncovered no traces of criminality.
“Proper now we don't have entry to the physique and we don't know for certain the place it’s, and we ask that the Russian authorities instantly give Alexei's physique to his household,” Yarmysh mentioned in an interview with Reuters on Saturday.
An worker on the morgue in Salekhard informed Reuters that Navalny's physique had not but arrived.
Novaya Gazeta cited unidentified sources as saying that the physique had been taken to the morgue at Salekhard Scientific District Hospital.
The newspaper mentioned the physique confirmed indicators of bruising according to some kind of seizure, in addition to traces of tried cardiac therapeutic massage. The newspaper mentioned it was not clear why his coronary heart stopped.
Some Russian media reported {that a} particular group of investigators had arrived from Moscow. It’s not clear when the autopsy might be achieved.
HEALTH ASPECTS
Simply the day earlier than his dying, Navalny was proven joking in courtroom through a courtroom video hyperlink. He gleefully requested a choose to make use of a few of his huge wage to prime up his personal account.
On-line press SOTA mentioned the courtroom session was convened after an “argument” with a jail official who tried to confiscate Navalny's pen. Navalny wrote in a while Thursday that he had been given 15 days in solitary confinement.
Russian prisons are brutal and his group had repeatedly raised fears that he could be injured or killed.
He was repeatedly positioned in punishment cells for varied crimes, together with for his perspective.
Though he joked in regards to the circumstances, the Polar Wolf colony is taken into account one of many hardest prisons in Russia.
“It hasn't been colder than -32°C but,” Navalny mentioned in January. “Nothing invigorates you want a hike in Yamal at 6:30 within the morning.”
“Even at this temperature, you may solely stroll greater than half an hour if you happen to handle to develop a brand new nostril, new ears and new fingers.”
He posted a photograph of his strolling yard – walled in concrete, topped with steel bars, 11 steps lengthy and three steps huge.
Navalny talked about a scene within the 2015 movie “The Revenant”, wherein Leonardo DiCaprio takes refuge within the carcass of a horse.
“I don't suppose it will have labored right here. A lifeless horse would freeze in quarter-hour,” mentioned Navalny. “We’d like an elephant right here, a scorching elephant, a fried one.”
Final yr, he raised slightly publicized drawback that haunts the prisons of Russia: an absence of enamel as a consequence of poor vitamin.
Lower than a yr in the past, his group mentioned he was coping with a extreme abdomen ache in jail.
(Reporting by Man Faulconbridge; Modifying by Susan Fenton)
