Alexey Navalny's mother, Lyudmila Navalnaya, last saw her son in prison on Monday and he was “healthy and happy”, she told Russian independent news channel Novaya Gazeta.
“I don’t want to hear any condolences. We saw our son in prison on the 12th – we were visiting. He was alive, healthy and happy.”
Navalny, the main Russian opposition figure and outspoken critic of the Kremlin who made global headlines when he was poisoned in 2020, has died, the Russian prison service said on Friday (16).
Navalny had long been a thorn in President Vladimir Putin's side, exposing corruption in senior positions in Russia's government, campaigning against the ruling party and orchestrating some of the biggest anti-government protests seen in recent years.
He returned to Russia in 2021 and was quickly arrested on charges he rejected as politically motivated.
He had been imprisoned ever since, and long-standing concerns for his well-being became more intense after he was transferred to a penal colony north of the Arctic Circle.
Navalny “felt unwell after a walk” and lost consciousness “almost immediately”, the prison service said on Friday, adding that it was investigating his “sudden death”.
Source: CNN Brasil
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