The physique of Alexei Navalny, a outstanding critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin who died in a Russian jail, was reported to have bruising on his head and chest, in response to a Russian newspaper citing a paramedic skilled.
The unnamed supply, recognized as an skilled paramedic, stated Navalny’s head and chest have been bruised when his physique arrived on the mortuary, as reported by the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta Europe.
In line with Russian jail officers, 47-year-old Navalny fell unconscious and died on Friday after a stroll on the Polar Wolf penal colony within the Arctic, the place he was serving a three-decade sentence.
Following his loss of life, his physique was initially taken to the close by city of Labytnangi and later transferred to the District Scientific Hospital within the regional capital of Salekhard.
“Normally the our bodies of people that die in jail are taken straight to the Bureau of Forensic Medication on Glazkova Avenue, however on this case, it was taken to the scientific hospital for some purpose,” the newspaper quoted the paramedic as saying.
He additional acknowledged, “They drove him to the morgue, introduced him in, after which stationed two policemen in entrance of the door. They could as properly have put up an indication saying ‘one thing mysterious is occurring right here!’ In fact, everybody needed to know what had occurred, what all of the secrecy was about and whether or not they have been attempting to cover one thing severe.”
The paramedic, related to an ambulance service, stated that he had been instructed that Navalny’s physique confirmed indicators of bruising.
“As an skilled paramedic, I can say that the accidents described by those that noticed them seemed to be from convulsions. âæ If an individual is convulsing and others attempt to maintain him down however the convulsions are very robust, then bruising seems. In addition they stated he had a bruise on his chest — the sort that comes from oblique cardiac therapeutic massage.”
Nonetheless, the Russian authorities has denied that Navalny was tortured or crushed and has stated that he died of pure causes.
