I don't know why he chose to go back...
As sad as it is, he had to expect that kind of treatment
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He was willing to be a martyr. He chose and honorable path that highlighted the abusive, dishonorable leadership in the Kremlin.
Was there some question about the quality of that leadership beforehand?
Of course. Many people support the Kremlin, many hate it. Navalny handled himself in a way that cost him dearly but was embarrassing for the Kremlin.
I think he wants to pull a Nelson Mandela
Rip
Don't cry to much for the guy, he's better than putin but still believes a lot of the russian ownership of Ukraine. Along with some of their more Orthodox style ways. He might not have attacked Ukraine but he's not a saint.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Lawyers for Alexey Navalny said Monday they have lost contact with the jailed Russian opposition leader, who was believed to be imprisoned in a penal colony about 150 miles east of Moscow, and his whereabouts are unknown.
Lawyers have made several attempts to get access to two penal colonies where Navalny, who has suffered serious health issues, was believed to be, spokesperson Kira Yarmysh said on X on Monday.
He should never have been jailed in the first place, and we’re going to work with our embassy in Moscow to see how much more we can find out,” John Kirby, US National Security Council spokesman, told reporters aboard Air Force One.
“What it was, we don’t know, but given that he was deprived of food, kept in a punishment cell without ventilation and had his walking time reduced to a minimum, it looked like a hungry faint,” Yarmush said.
He posed as a senior official from Russia’s National Security Council tasked with carrying out an analysis of the poisoning operation, and phoned Kudryavtsev, who provided a detailed account of how the nerve agents was applied to a pair of Navalny’s underpants.
Navalny was immediately incarcerated upon his return to Russia in January 2021, on charges of violating the terms of his probation related to a fraud case brought against him in 2013, which he also dismissed as politically motivated.
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Going back was a suicidal decision, I wouldn't be surprised if he had died in prison.
He was transferred to Moscow prison for new trial