Message to his wife Yulia, call to demonstrate, disciplinary cell… what Alexeï Navalny's last days looked like

magictr | February 17, 2024 | News | No Comments

La dernière apparition de Navalny, la veille de l'annonce de son décès. CAPTURE D'ECRAN SOTA

Moscow announced on Friday the death of Vladimir Putin's main opponent. His death sparked numerous demonstrations in capitals around the world, in Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, The Hague… while Moscow warned against any demonstrations.

It was through a press release that the federal service for the execution of sentences of the Lamalo-Nenets autonomous district, in the Russian Far North, announced on Friday the death of the most famous opponent of Vladimir Putin, Alexeï Navalny, at the age of 47: "On February 16, 2024, in penitentiary center number 3, prisoner A.A. Navalny felt unwell after a walk and almost immediately lost consciousness. Medical personnel from the facility arrived immediately and an emergency rescue team was called. All necessary resuscitation measures were taken, without result. The emergency doctors noted the death of the condemned man, the causes of his death are being established". The death was declared at 2:17 p.m., the illness occurred at 12:11 p.m.

The day before his death, the last images of the opponent, captured during a videoconference appearance and broadcast by the online media Sota are yet that of a thin but smiling man. According to Le Monde, Lioudmila Navalnaïa, Navalny's mother, said that her son was "in good health and in a happy mood"< /em> when she visited him on February 12.

Sentenced to 19 years in prison for "extremism", Alexeï Navalny was transferred in December to the Russian Far North, the penal colony of Kharp, in the Arctic, in Siberia. "A prison from which it's impossible to escape", assures the independent daily Moscow Times. One of the harshest establishments in the country. He was until then detained in Vladimir, 250 km from Moscow.

"The body cannot withstand such torture"

A few weeks before the Russian presidential election, in March 2024, the symbol was obvious for Olga Prokopieva, of the Russia-Libertés association, quoted by Franceinfo: "Alexeï Navalny is sent beyond the polar circle and it is not insignificant that it was exactly at that time.&amp ;nbsp;It’s to isolate him, to break him morally. These are very difficult conditions of detention where he cannot receive letters, no family visits. It's very complicated for his lawyers to see him. In addition, the climatic conditions in this region are very harsh and will be an additional blow to his morale".

In winter, the thermometer dropped to – 30 °C.

On February 14, Valentine's Day, his X account (ex-twitter) opened with a glamorous photo of his couple with his wife Ioulia Navalnaïa, who appealed on Friday from Munich to fight "the monster" Poutine. "I feel that you are close every second", wrote Navalny, or rather one of the people authorized to manage his X account.

That same February 14, 2024, he was placed in a disciplinary cell for violation of the detention regime: "The colony of Yamal decided to beat Vladimir's record ( Putin) in matters of appeasement to the Moscow authorities. She has just given me 15 days in a disciplinary cell. In other words, this is the fourth disciplinary unit in less than two months since I have been there. They are tough, wrote Navalny again.

Very active on powerful state of mind of the country".

Life in this Siberian prison, for a man weakened by poisoning in 2020, and hunger strikes, was no less trying. "Immobility, low-calorie food, lack of air, constant cold. Alexei Navalny was tortured and tormented for three years. As his doctor told me, the body cannot withstand such torture, wrote Friday Dmitry Muratov, Russian Nobel Peace Prize winner and editor-in-chief of' ;nbsp;Novaïa Gazeta, which recalled that the inmate was serving his "27th sentence in a cell", since his incarceration in 2021.