Jailed Russian Opposition Politician and Putin Critic Alexei Navalny Has Died, Says Prison Service

TIME

Jailed Russian opposition leader and President Vladimir Putin critic Alexei Navalny, 47, has died in prison, the Office of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia said in a statement Friday, per reports by multiple news outlets.

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00:37 - I am deeply saddened and concerned about the reports

00:42 coming from Russia that Alexei Navalny is dead.

00:49 All the facts has to be established,

00:51 and Russia has serious questions to answer.

00:58 Alexei Navalny has been a strong voice for freedom,

01:02 for democracy for many years.

01:03 And NATO and NATO allies have called for his immediate release

01:11 for a long time.

01:12 And today, my thoughts go to his family and his loved ones.

01:20 And we remain committed to support everyone

01:26 that believes in democracy and freedom,

01:28 as Alexei Navalny has done for so many years.

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02:47 We've heard the reports from Russia of Alexei Navalny's

02:53 death in prison.

02:55 For more than a decade, Russian government and Putin

03:02 have persecuted, poisoned, and imprisoned Alexei Navalny.

03:08 And now, the reports of his death.

03:11 First and foremost, if these reports are accurate,

03:14 our hearts go out to his wife and to his family.

03:20 Beyond that, his death in a Russian prison

03:26 and the fixation and fear of one man

03:32 only underscores the weakness and rot

03:35 at the heart of the system that Putin has built.

03:38 Russia's responsible for this.

03:41 We'll be talking to many other countries concerned

03:46 about Alexei Navalny, especially if these reports bear out

03:50 to be true.

03:51 Alex Navalny was an incredibly brave fighter

03:54 against corruption.

03:54 And he gave up everything in campaigning

03:57 for what he believed in.

03:58 And my heart goes out to his wife and to his family.

04:02 And we should be clear about what has happened here.

04:05 Putin's Russia imprisoned him, trumped up charges against him,

04:10 poisoned him, sent him to a Arctic penal colony,

04:14 and now he's tragically died.

04:16 And we should hold Putin accountable for this.

04:19 And no one should be in any doubt

04:21 about the dreadful nature of Putin's regime in Russia

04:24 after what has just happened.

04:26 Will there be consequences for Russia now?

04:28 Well, there should be consequences,

04:29 because there's no doubt in my mind,

04:31 this man was a brave fighter against corruption

04:34 for justice, for democracy.

04:36 And look what Putin's Russia did to him.

04:39 They trumped up charges, they imprisoned him,

04:41 they poisoned him, they sent him to an Arctic penal colony,

04:43 and he's died.

04:45 And that is because of the action

04:47 that Putin's Russia took.

04:48 No one can look at this regime now

04:49 and not recognise it for the truly dreadful nature

04:53 that it has.

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