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Alexei Navalny has died in prison (www.reuters.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think the simplest explanation is that Russian prisons, like most other prisons, are simply bad for your health in general, especially if it is weakened by an OD/poisoning/whatever. It would make more sense for the yanks to kill him than it would for Putin (who would have gained more from people simply forgetting about him), although it seems lightly implausible (but not impossible) that they infiltrated a Siberian penal colony just to kill a guy so he could be used as a martyr.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

although it seems lightly implausible (but not impossible) that they infiltrated a Siberian penal colony just to kill a guy so he could be used as a martyr.

Well, they wouldn't have to, really. It's not that hard to pay a crooked prison guard these days. But yeah, my money's on a prison beyond the polar circle being bad for you, especially when you're not that healthy to begin with, as well.

Edit for the fans of conspiratorial version: his lawyer visited a couple of days prior, so maybe not even a guard, or a guard was paid not to search the lawyer to zealously.