2024-03-01T05:57:51+00:00
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/ The Australian authorities imposed sanctions on three officials in the Russian justice system, claiming their “responsibility for the death of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny.”
“The Australian government has imposed additional sanctions against Russia, including on three Russian officials linked to the prison where Alexei Navalny died,” Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said in a statement.
Earlier, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov described the statements of Western politicians about Navalny’s death as frenzied and unacceptable, noting that the investigation is ongoing, and that forensic experts have not yet issued their reports on the causes of death.
On February 16, the Russian prison service announced that Navalny had died in prison immediately after returning to the cell from a regular walk in the prison yard, and that the investigation into the cause of death was still ongoing.
Navalny was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to five years in prison with a suspended sentence for “squandering public funds”, as he was proven to have embezzled 16 million rubles from the Kirov State Timber Company.
He remained in the city of Kirov, restricted in his freedom and not allowed to travel or leave his place of residence except with permission from the relevant authorities, until he left two years ago for northern Russia, where he announced that he had been “poisoned on board the plane.”
After he was taken to the hospital, his wife demanded that he be transferred to Germany “for fear of his life”, claiming that he was an “opposition figure”, so President Vladimir Putin issued a special permit that allowed him to travel.
Upon his return to Moscow from Germany after “treatment in a German intelligence hospital,” he was arrested at the airport and imprisoned under the first sentence, but with execution, for violating the provisions of the sentence and leaving Kirov without special permission before he was “poisoned.”