{"id":15112,"date":"2021-02-03T01:38:42","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T01:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=15112"},"modified":"2024-02-16T18:50:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T18:50:15","slug":"alexey-navalny-addressed-the-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=15112","title":{"rendered":"Alexey Navalny dies in prison&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>February 16,2024<\/strong> (Updated from previous posts)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Alexey-Navalny-.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25606\" style=\"width:1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Alexey-Navalny-.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Alexey-Navalny--300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Alexey-Navalny--768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgzeromedia.us12.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3D7404e6dcdc8018f49c82e941d%26id%3Dff051b5a93%26e%3Da7fe513ee6&amp;data=05%7C02%7C%7C38f22ea08b5e4d35ea1308dc2ee98004%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638436827639000827%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=oQ91ONwTnM87bdmHqo%2F30Do27Dg8TIzG%2Bn%2BIhrUz5sI%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Putin critic Alexei Navalny dies in prison<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>News broke early Friday that Russian dissident&nbsp;<strong>Alexei Navalny<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 a vocal critic of President&nbsp;<strong>Vladimir Putin<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgzeromedia.us12.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3D7404e6dcdc8018f49c82e941d%26id%3D4ff67393b8%26e%3Da7fe513ee6&amp;data=05%7C02%7C%7C38f22ea08b5e4d35ea1308dc2ee98004%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638436827639017382%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=%2BNlLFmNbOghTGFDMiVinyvgiMBmNuGu1Vx9yiKEtOWo%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has died in prison<\/a>. \u201cOn 16.02.24 in the correctional colony number three, convict Navalny felt ill after a walk almost immediately losing consciousness,\u201d the Federal Penitentiary Service for Yamal said in a statement, noting that emergency services were unable to revive him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Navalny, a social media-savvy activist who led an anti-corruption protest movement of hundreds of thousands against Putin a decade ago, was poisoned with a nerve agent in Siberia in 2021 \u2013 an attack he blamed on the Kremlin \u2013 and flown to Germany for treatment. He later defied the Kremlin and returned to Russia, where he was promptly sentenced to 11 years in prison for fraud and other charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In August, a court dumped another 19 years onto his sentence for good measure, and in December, he went missing in the prison system for weeks amid concerns that he was being moved to an even harsher prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"white-space: normal; caret-color: rgb(85, 85, 85); color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: roboto, &quot;helvetica neue&quot;, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">For more about the opposition leader\u2019s life, check out&nbsp;<\/span><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"Verified\" originalsrc=\"https:\/\/gzeromedia.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=7404e6dcdc8018f49c82e941d&amp;id=b48b3c7ffc&amp;e=a7fe513ee6\" shash=\"AnJ2VncEk67X\/P\/THJtOrbenp9\/hg+QmYHdINcXFeFaGLuzrRhO85aWCcrOp+Ow1vXOiy6S0KqwMJfnwIWDoPtJ\/Xu5El0t31EYvrpxKjyQGZw2IlxVvXo9Ks2qxJbTzjZVrKxxFapw9DNcZfhI5hzeFVjvLSDzN6SvllBFk7ps=\" title=\"Protected by Outlook: https:\/\/gzeromedia.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=7404e6dcdc8018f49c82e941d&amp;id=b48b3c7ffc&amp;e=a7fe513ee6. Click or tap to follow the link.\" data-linkindex=\"6\" style=\"white-space: normal; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: roboto, &quot;helvetica neue&quot;, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 160, 223) !important;\" href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgzeromedia.us12.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3D7404e6dcdc8018f49c82e941d%26id%3Db48b3c7ffc%26e%3Da7fe513ee6&amp;data=05%7C02%7C%7C38f22ea08b5e4d35ea1308dc2ee98004%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638436827639025417%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=koKvzdIRD1ZAfsabuw0Efuxvbx8HlBm%2Br49iYrJVGng%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\">GZERO\u2019s interview with director Daniel Roher<\/a><span style=\"white-space: normal; caret-color: rgb(85, 85, 85); color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: roboto, &quot;helvetica neue&quot;, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">&nbsp;about his Oscar-winning documentary \u201cNavalny,\u201d starring the man himself.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: GZERO  Feb 16\/24<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"648\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Alexei-Navalny-768x648-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25599\" style=\"width:900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Alexei-Navalny-768x648-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Alexei-Navalny-768x648-1-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Jailed Russian activist Alexei Navalny \u2018not heard from for almost a week\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mon 11 Dec 2023<strong>&nbsp;The Guardian<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite> <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>December 11,23<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/11\/jailed-russian-activist-alexei-navalny-not-heard-from-for-almost-a-week?CMP=share_btn_link\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/11\/jailed-russian-activist-alexei-navalny-not-heard-from-for-almost-a-week?CMP=share_btn_link\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/11\/jailed-russian-activist-alexei-navalny-not-heard-from-for-almost-a-week?CMP=share_btn_link<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>February 3, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/meduza.io\/en\/news\/2021\/02\/02\/russian-opposition-politician-alexey-navalny-will-spend-the-next-2-5-years-in-prison-following-a-verdict-in-moscow\"><strong>Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny will spend the next 2.5 years in prison, following a verdict in Moscow<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"806\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Court-Painter-A-N.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25053\" style=\"width:800px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Court-Painter-A-N.jpg 850w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Court-Painter-A-N-300x284.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Court-Painter-A-N-768x728.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Court Painter &amp; painting of AN<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>On<strong> February 2,2021<\/strong>  during a hearing that will determine if he remains in prison for several years to come, opposition figure <strong>Alexey Navalny addressed the cour<\/strong>t, <strong>delivering a short speech <\/strong>in which he maintained his innocence and condemned Russia\u2019s political and legal system for corruption and repression. Meduza publishes an English-language translation of Navalny\u2019s courtroom remarks below.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I would like to begin by discussing the legal issue here, which seems to me to be paramount and a bit overlooked in this discussion. There are two people sitting right there and one of them is saying: let\u2019s lock up Navalny because he showed up [to meet with his parole officers] on Mondays, not Thursdays. And the other says: let\u2019s lock up Navalny because he didn\u2019t show up immediately after coming out of his coma. But I would like everyone to remember that the essence of this trial is to lock me up over a case in which I was already exonerated \u2014 a case that\u2019s already been recognized as fabricated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we look at the criminal statutes \u2014 your Honor, I hope you\u2019ve already done this once or twice \u2014 we\u2019ll see that the European Court of Human Rights is part [of the Russian justice system] and its decisions are binding. The Russian Federation halfway acknowledged this ruling and even paid me compensation here. Despite this, my brother spent 3.5 years in prison because of this same case. I spent an entire year under house arrest for this same case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s do a little math. The verdict was in 2014, it\u2019s 2021 now, and I\u2019m still being prosecuted for this. Why this case exactly? There\u2019s a reason and it\u2019s not because there\u2019s some shortage of criminal charges against me. Somebody wanted me arrested, the moment I crossed the border [after returning from Germany].&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The explanation is one man\u2019s hatred and fear \u2014 one man hiding in a bunker. I mortally offended him by surviving. I survived thanks to good people, thanks to pilots and doctors. And then I committed an even more serious offense: I didn\u2019t run and hide. Then something truly terrifying happened: I participated in the investigation of my own poisoning, and we proved, in fact, that Putin, using Russia\u2019s Federal Security Service, was responsible for this attempted murder. And that\u2019s driving this thieving little man in his bunker out of his mind. He\u2019s simply going insane as a result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s no popularity ratings. No massive support. There\u2019s none of that. Because it turns out that dealing with a political opponent who has no access to television and no political party merely requires trying to kill him with a chemical weapon. So, of course, he\u2019s losing his mind over this. Because everyone was convinced that he\u2019s just a bureaucrat who was accidentally appointed to his position. He\u2019s never participated in any debates or campaigned in an election. Murder is the only way he knows how to fight. He\u2019ll go down in history as nothing but a poisoner. We all remember Alexander the Liberator [Alexander II] and Yaroslav the Wise [Yaroslav I]. Well, now we\u2019ll have Vladimir the Underpants Poisoner.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m standing here, guarded by the police, and the National Guard is out there with half of Moscow cordoned off. All this because that small man in a bunker is losing his mind. He\u2019s losing his mind because we proved and demonstrated that he isn\u2019t buried in geopolitics; he\u2019s busy holding meetings where he decides how to steal politicians\u2019 underpants and smear them with chemical weapons to try to kill them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main thing in this whole trial isn\u2019t what happens to me. Locking me up isn\u2019t difficult. What matters most is why this is happening. This is happening to intimidate large numbers of people. They\u2019re imprisoning one person to frighten millions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve got 20 million people living below the poverty line. We have tens of millions of people living without the slightest prospects for the future. Life is bearable in Moscow, but travel 100 kilometers in any direction and everything\u2019s a mess. Our whole country is living in this mess, without the slightest prospects, earning 20,000 rubles [$265] a month. And they\u2019re all silent; they try to shut people up with these show trials. Lock up this one to scare millions more. One person takes to the streets and they lock up another five people to scare 15 million more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope very much that people won\u2019t look at this trial as a signal that they should be more afraid. This isn\u2019t a demonstration of strength \u2014 it\u2019s a show of weakness. You can\u2019t lock up millions and hundreds of thousands of people. I hope very much that people will realize this. And they will. Because you can\u2019t lock up the whole country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only thing growing in [Russia] is the number of billionaires. Everything else is declining. I\u2019m locked up in a prison cell and all I hear about on TV is that butter is getting more expensive. The price of eggs is rising. You\u2019ve deprived these people of a future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everything I\u2019m saying now reflects my attitude toward the performance you\u2019ve staged here. This is what happened when lawlessness and tyranny become the essence of a political system, and it\u2019s horrifying.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it\u2019s even worse when lawlessness and tyranny pose as state prosecutors and dress up in judges\u2019 robes. It\u2019s the duty of every person to defy you and to defy such laws.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am fighting as best I can and I will continue to do so, despite the fact that I\u2019m now under the control of people who love to smear everything with chemical weapons. My life isn\u2019t worth two cents, but I will do everything I can so that the law prevails. And I salute and thank the staff at the Anti-Corruption Foundation who have been arrested and all the honest people across the country who aren\u2019t afraid and who take to the streets. Because they have the same rights as you. This country belongs to them just as it does to you and everyone else.&nbsp;We demand proper justice, decent treatment, participation in elections, and participation in the distribution of the national wealth. Yes, we demand all this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I want to say that there are many good things in Russia now. The very best are the people who aren\u2019t afraid \u2014 people who don\u2019t look the other way, who will never hand our country over to a bunch of corrupt officials who want to trade it for palaces, vineyards, and aqua discos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I demand my immediate release and the release of all political prisoners. I do not recognize your performance here \u2014 it\u2019s a deception and completely illegal.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 16,2024 (Updated from previous posts) Putin critic Alexei Navalny dies in prison News broke early Friday that Russian dissident&nbsp;Alexei Navalny&nbsp;\u2013 a vocal critic of President&nbsp;Vladimir Putin&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;has died in prison. \u201cOn 16.02.24 in the correctional colony number three, convict Navalny felt ill after a walk almost immediately losing consciousness,\u201d the Federal Penitentiary Service for Yamal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=15112\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alexey Navalny dies in prison&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15112"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25608,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15112\/revisions\/25608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}