Navalny supporters hold vigil at Geneva's UN HQ

Record ID: 1768816

  • Title: Navalny supporters hold vigil at Geneva's UN HQ
  • Date: 16th February 2024
  • Summary: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (FEBRUARY 16, 2024) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA DIVISION, RACHEL DENBER, SAYING: “For more than a decade, the Kremlin has been persecuting, imprisoning and tormenting Navalny. So, obviously his death comes as a shock, but he should never have been in prison in the first
  • Embargoed: 1st March 2024 18:51
  • Keywords: Geneva Human Rights Watch Navalny Russia United Nations death jail protest
  • Location: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
  • City: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
  • Country: Russia
  • Topics: Fundamental Rights/Civil Liberties,Europe,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA005117216022024RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Dozens of people in Geneva mourned the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in front of the United Nations building holding white flowers and posters reading "Putin is a killer" on Friday (February 16).
    Navalny, Russian President Vladimir Putin's most formidable domestic opponent, fell unconscious and died on Friday after a walk at the "Polar Wolf" Arctic penal colony where he was serving a three-decade sentence, authorities said.
    Natalia, a Russian citizen living in Geneva, said she was worried for her country and her relatives still living there.
    Human Rights Watch, deputy director of the Europe and central Asia division, Rachel Denber said the Russian authorities bear full responsibility for Navalny’s death and that the other activists in jail are in grave danger.
    Navalny had been by far the most prominent opposition leader since coming to international prominence during street protests in 2011, and some supporters had believed he would eventually walk free and become Russia's leader.
    His death, if confirmed, leaves the scattered groups that oppose Putin without a figurehead, and no obvious candidate to try to turn any discontent over his demise into mass protests.
    (Production: Cecile Mantovani, Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber)
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