Independent labs have found Alexei Navalny was poisoned, widow says

Alexei Navalny died in a Russian jail (Jonathan Brady/PA

The widow of Alexei Navalny has said that two independent laboratories have found that her husband was poisoned shortly before his death in a Russian prison.

Mr Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, died in an Arctic penal colony in February 2024. He was serving a 19-year sentence that he believed to be politically motivated.