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More than 400 people were detained in Russia while paying tribute to opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died at a remote Arctic penal colony, a prominent rights group reported.

The sudden death of Navalny, 47, was a crushing blow to many Russians, who had pinned their hopes for the future on President Vladimir Putin's fiercest foe. Navalny remained vocal in his unrelenting criticism of the Kremlin even after surviving a nerve agent poisoning and receiving multiple prison .

The news reverberated across the globe, and hundreds of people in dozens of Russian cities streamed to ad-hoc memorials and monuments to victims of political repressions with flowers and candles on Friday and Saturday to pay a tribute to the politician. In more than a dozen cities, police detained 401 people by Saturday night, according to the OVD-Info rights group that tracks pol
itical arrests and provides legal aid.

More than 200 arrests were made in St. Petersburg, Russia's second largest city, the group said. Among those detained there was Grigory Mikhnov-Voitenko, a priest of the Apostolic Orthodox Church a religious group independent of the Russian Orthodox Church who announced plans on social media to hold a memorial service for Navalny and was arrested on Saturday morning outside his home. He was charged with organising a rally and placed in a holding cell in a police precinct, but was later hospitalised with a stroke, OVD-Info reported.

Courts in St. Petersburg have ordered 42 of those detained on Friday to serve from one to six days in jail, while nine others were fined, court officials said late on Saturday. In Moscow, at least six people were ordered to serve 15 days in jail, according to OVD-Info. One person was also jailed in the southern city of Krasnodar and two more in the city of Bryansk, the group said.

The news of Navalny's death came a month before a presidential election in Russia that is widely expected to give President Vladimir Putin another six years in power. Questions about the cause of death lingered on Sunday, and it remained unclear when the authorities would release his body to his family.

Navalny's team said Saturday that the politician was "murdered" and accused the authorities of deliberately stalling the release of the body, with Navalny's mother and lawyers getting contradicting information from various institutions where they went in their quest to retrieve the body. "They're driving us around in circles and covering their tracks," Navalny's spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, said on Saturday.

Everything there is covered with cameras in the colony. Every step he took was filmed from all angles all these years. Each employee has a video recorder. In two days, there has been not a single video leaked or published. There is no room for uncertainty here," Navalny's closest ally and strategist Leonid Volkov said on Sunday.

A note handed to Navalny's mother stated that he died at 2.17pm on Friday, according to Yarmysh. Prison officials told his mother when she arrived at the penal colony Saturday that her son had perished from "sudden death syndrome," Ivan Zhdanov, the director of Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service reported that Navalny felt sick after a walk Friday and became unconscious at the penal colony in the town of Kharp, in the Yamalo-Nenets region about 1900 kilometres northeast of Moscow. An ambulance arrived, but he couldn't be revived, the service said, adding that the cause of death is still "being established"

Navalny had been jailed since January 2021, when he returned to Moscow after recuperating in from nerve agent poisoning he blamed on the Kremlin. He has received three prison since his arrest, on a number of charges he has rejected as politically motivated.

After the last verdict that handed him a 19-year term, Navalny said he understood he was "serving a life sentence, which is measured by the length of my life or the length of life of this regime".

Hours after Navalny's death was reported, his wife, Yulia Navalnaya, made a dramatic appearance at the Munich Security Conference.

She said she was unsure if she could believe the news from official Russian sources, "but if this is true, I want Putin and everyone around Putin, Putin's friends, his government to know that they will bear responsibility for what they did to our country, to my family and to my husband

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This is bad

Arresting civilians and mourners at the funeral is very wrong, this is why I hate dictatorship and authoritarian rulers.

Allowing one man to rule the country for so long is not good , they will later turn to demi gods that cannot be questioned for any wrongdoing.

God1000:
Arresting civilians and mourners at the funeral is very wrong, this is why I hate dictatorship and authoritarian rulers.

Allowing one man to rule the country for so long is not good , they will later turn to demi gods that cannot be questioned for any wrongdoing.

Is Macron also a dictator for arresting his citizens?..

You started crying because of Navalny, where's your humanity when Gonzalo Lira was killed, Assange is still in prison.. Snowden have to run away to Russia to avoid being killed..

You're crying justice for Navalny that's CIA agent to destroy Russia.. The idiot was caught accept money to destabilise Russia, he deserve to die for trying to kill majority of the world hope...

If I'm found one day collecting bribe from CIA to destabilise Nigeria, I should be killed.. Traitors deserve no pity, you can be an opposition without working against the state...

BentizilL0:

Is Macron also a dictator for arresting his citizens?..

You started crying because of Navalny, where's your humanity when Gonzalo Lira was killed, Assange is still in prison.. Snowden have to run away to Russia to avoid being killed..

You're crying justice for Navalny that's CIA agent to destroy Russia.. The idiot was caught accept money to destabilise Russia, he deserve to die for trying to kill majority of the world hope...

If I'm found one day collecting bribe from CIA to destabilise Nigeria, I should be killed.. Traitors deserve no pity, you can be an opposition without working against the state...

You guys with silly conspiracy theories, did you have any evidence that he was a CIA agent working against the Russian federation?

There is a video of Navalny or his aide asking the CIA for 20 million dollars to start a revolution in Russia. Navalny is also a bloody fascist who hates the minorities of Russia and called them cockroaches. He is a nobody in Russia and was arrested for treason with evidence. If someone is caught in America collecting money from Russians to disrupt elections he will be arrested. NAVALNY is not even popular in Russia.The only reason western media is promoting him is because he is serving western interests.

God1000:
You guys with silly conspiracy theories, did you have any evidence that he was a CIA agent working against the Russian federation?

Navalny is a foreign agent planted to destroy Russia.. He's being funded and provided intelligence by foreign agency to destabilise Russia..

Navalny is either CIA stooge or Dept of State lap dog, more likely the latter. As for financing, he and cronies Leonid Volkov and others are financed from Unknown Sources with Deep Pockets; this article is a good of the bitcoins financing of Navalny and his fund (the fund was recently recognized as extremist organisation by Moscow City Court)

NAVALNY STOCK TAKES A DIVE
FLB: Wealthy anonymous sponsors financed Alexei Navalny with $1.103M worth of bitcoin in 2017, $2.160M in 2018. But in 2019 they provided only $694 thousand…  
https://flb.ru/1/4055.html

Let the ghost of Navalny hunts whoever that is responsible for his death here and hereafter.

May his soul rest in perfect peace.





Tinubu, a bad man with good intentions.

ShobayoEmma:
Let the ghost of Navalny hunts whoever that is responsible for his death here and hereafter.

May his soul rest in perfect peace.





Tinubu, a bad man with good intentions.

He's a traitor and deserve anything that happen to him..

What about this from Dr. Roberts.

President Reagan appointed Dr. Roberts Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and he was confirmed in office by the U.S. Senate.


https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/02/17/navalny-was-murdered-by-the-mrna-covid-vaccine/

Chai..



The young man really touched the heart of his people!!


The day wey Putin go die, people go mourn am globally!!

Putin no dey waste time,he just kills u

South Africa nor go see this one ooo, clout chasers

Navalny was stupid to have gone back to Russia. He should have remained in exile.

Ok

Fineman2:


https://c.newsnow.co.uk/A/1217644552?-14432:11

Putin is a criminal and will be prosecuted very soon. He will be arrested or killed

E get Nigerian people weh base for Villages inside 9ja but dem Sabi the latest happenings for Russia and Europe. lolz

The KGB says Hi

Even at this, Putin is far better than white powder inhaling Bobo Chicago in all indices of human consideration.

Nalvany was a stuge of Russian enemies who want to dethrone Putin for no just reason, despite the fact that Putin is by far one of the best president in the world.

So sad

Good no room for Nazi sympathizer and CIA assets. Lock them all up,
Let them go and protest for assange and Gonzo lira and I also forgot to mention Jeffrey Epstein

God1000:
Arresting civilians and mourners at the funeral is very wrong, this is why I hate dictatorship and authoritarian rulers.

Allowing one man to rule the country for so long is not good , they will later turn to demi gods that cannot be questioned for any wrongdoing.

Just as British and American backed Israeli can't be questioned for ongoing GENOCIDE in Palestine. You and whoever wants to criticize Putin must in the first place never be a ers of Israeli evils, as ed by Britain and American, in the middle east.

Jagabanarmy:

Putin is a criminal and will be prosecuted very soon. He will be arrested or killed

How?

M

Who da hell is Navalny? We don't know him here in Agbadohungerland. naira is still falling.

too bad putin is a killer

Fineman2:


https://c.newsnow.co.uk/A/1217644552?-14432:11

Putin killing his own people 😱😱

chiiraq802:
E get Nigerian people weh base for Villages inside 9ja but dem Sabi the latest happenings for Russia and Europe. lolz

People like BentizilL0 🤣🤣

Hmmm