Alexey Navalny timeline: From poisoning to prison to death
Al Jazeera
The Kremlin’s most prominent critic died after collapsing and losing consciousness at a penal colony north of the Arctic Circle, prison authorities have said.
Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has died on Friday in the Arctic prison colony where he was serving a 19-year-term, Russia’s federal penitentiary service said.
Navalny lost consciousness after a walk and could not be revived by medics, the prison service explained.
Here are some of the key events in his life:
August 20, 2020 – Navalny is hospitalised in the Siberian city of Omsk after falling ill and losing consciousness while on a flight over Siberia. Navalny’s spokeswoman says he was poisoned, perhaps by a cup of tea he drank prior to the takeoff from Tomsk’s Bogashevo airport, but Russian doctors treating him say they have found “no trace” in his blood or urine.
August 22, 2020 – Navalny is airlifted to Charite hospital in Germany’s capital, Berlin, for treatment. The Russian medical team treating him had initially refused the move before later releasing him. German doctors say their tests indicate Navalny was poisoned.
