The Navalny Case: Allegations, Denials, and International Condemnation

2024-02-20 13:34:00

Reem Abdel Hamid wrote Tuesday, February 20, 2024 03:34 PM

The spokesman denied Kremlin Dmitry Peskov claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin had watched the video in which the widow of the late oppositionist Alexei Navalny pledged to continue his fight once morest the Russian president, and denied her allegations that Putin had killed the oppositionist, describing them as baseless and impudent.

And it was Navalny’s widow She accused Putin of killing her husband, who was serving a prison sentence in a remote prison, and claimed that officials’ refusal to hand over his body to his mother was part of a cover-up. She claimed that her husband may have been killed with a nerve agent such as Novichok.

Russian authorities said that the cause of Navalny’s sudden death on Friday is still unknown, while Western countries condemned Russia over this matter.

US President Joe Biden said that Putin was responsible for Navalny’s killing, while the French Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian ambassador and called for an independent investigation.

Peskov said regarding Yulia Navalny’s accusations that they are certainly baseless and impudent regarding the Russian head of state.

Navalny was 47 years old, and had been imprisoned since 2021 following returning to Moscow following recovering from nerve agent poisoning in Germany, for which he held the Kremlin responsible. He was sentenced to three terms in prison on multiple charges.

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