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.
