- Yulia Navalnaya, the spouse of late Russian opposition chief Alexey Navalny, addressed the European Parliament.
- She accused Russian officers of abusing her husband’s physique.
- Navalny died all of the sudden in an Arctic penal colony in February 16.
Yulia Navalnaya, the spouse of late Russian opposition chief Alexey Navalny, mentioned her husband’s physique had been abused whereas awaiting burial.
Addressing the European Parliament in Strasbourg Wednesday, Navalnaya accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of killing her husband.
She mentioned that her husband had been “tortured for 3 years” on Putin’s orders, minimize off from the surface world, starved, and denied contact with family and friends.
“After which they killed him. Even after that they abused his physique and abused his mom,” Navalnaya mentioned. The Kremlin has denied any involvement in Navalny’s dying.
Navalny’s mom has claimed that Russian officers refused to launch his physique for burial and pressured her to carry a personal funeral, then lastly backed down eight days after his dying.
The Kremlin has not but responded to the allegations.
She mentioned her husband could be buried in Moscow on Friday, however didn’t know if the occasion could be peaceable as a result of Russian police may attempt to arrest these paying their respects.
Navalny, Putin’s strongest critic, died in a Russian penal colony on February 16, the place he was being held on prices extensively regarded to be politically motivated.
Russian authorities have claimed that he died of pure causes, however Western leaders, together with US President Joe Biden, have accused Putin of being behind Navalny’s dying.
Navalny had for years campaigned towards Putin and his inside circle, releasing viral movies exposing their alleged corruption and holding anti-Kremlin rallies.
He was taken overseas for therapy after narrowly escaping dying in a poisoning in 2020, then returned to Russia in 2021 and was imprisoned.
Navalnaya informed European leaders that sanctions alone wouldn’t defeat Putin, they usually should emulate her late husband’s inventiveness.
“If you happen to actually wish to defeat Putin, it’s important to turn out to be an innovator,” she tells MEPs in Strasbourg. “And it’s important to cease being boring.”
