Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is dead.
Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has died at the Arctic prison colony where he was serving a 19-year sentence, Russia’s federal penitentiary service says in a statement.
The United Nations says it is “appalled” at news that the Kremlin’s most prominent critic, Alexei Navalny, died in prison and urges Russian authorities to “end the persecution”.
