Lab reports show Navalny was poisoned in prison
The widow of Alexei Navalny said on Wednesday that two independent labs have found that her husband was poisoned shortly before his death in a Russian prison.
Navalny, 47, who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, died in the Arctic penal colony in February 2024.
He was serving a 19-year sentence that he believed to be politically motivated.
Authorities said that the politician became ill after a walk but have otherwise given few details on his death.
In a video, Yulia Navalnaya said that two laboratories abroad tested biological samples from Navalny’s body.
“These labs in two different countries reached the same conclusion: Alexei was killed. More specifically, he was poisoned,” she said.
