The U.N. human rights expert on Russia said on Monday that Alexei Navalny\u2019s death was Moscow\u2019s responsibility as he was either killed in prison or died from detention conditions that amounted to torture.
\n\u201cSo the Russian government is responsible, one way or another, for his death,\u201d Mariana Katzarova told Reuters on the sidelines of an event on Russian political prisoners at the United Nations in Geneva.
\nRussia\u2019s spy chief previously said that Navalny, who died on Feb. 16 in an Arctic prison, died a natural death.
\nKatzarova also warned that other detainees in Russia could suffer the same fate as Navalny, saying she was \u201cvery worried\u201d about opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza among others.
\n\u201cEver since the death of Alexei Navalny, there is no day passing without asking myself, who is the next Navalny?\u201d she said. \u201cAnd there will be a next Navalny, for sure, with this level of repression.\u201d
\nThe Kremlin has portrayed Navalny and his supporters as lawbreakers and tools of the West, acting to destabilise Russia. It has denied his wife Yulia Navalnaya\u2019s accusations that President Vladimir Putin had him killed.
\nNavalnaya said last week the scale of public support for Navalny since his death was proof that his cause lived on, and called for a massive election day protest against Putin on March 17.
\n(Reuters)Prison conditions. death responsibility, detention conditions, repression<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The U.N. human rights expert on Russia, Mariana Katzarova, stated that the Russian government is responsible for Alexei Navalny’s death, which occurred either due to being killed in prison or from detention conditions equating to torture. Navalny died on February 16 in an Arctic prison, with Russia’s spy chief claiming he died a natural death. Katzarova expressed concern for other detainees in Russia, including opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza, fearing they might face the same fate as Navalny. The Kremlin has denied accusations from Navalny’s wife, Yulia Navalnaya, that President Vladimir Putin had Navalny killed. Yulia Navalnaya has called for a massive election day protest against Putin on March 17, citing public support for Navalny’s cause since his death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3,1407,1143,415,115,887,131,463,154,1408,19,1358,414,1357,18],"class_list":["post-3785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus","tag-cyprus","tag-death-responsibility","tag-detention-conditions","tag-government","tag-human-rights","tag-navalny","tag-prison","tag-protest","tag-putin","tag-repression","tag-russia","tag-support","tag-un","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-world"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"\n