President Joe Biden blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday for the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a remote Arctic prison.
Navalny, a frequent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was in prison after being convicted on charges of “extremism” and sentenced to 19 years in prison. Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service said that Navalny felt sick after going on a walk and soon after lost consciousness and died.
During a brief press conference from the White House, Biden said that Navalny “bravely stood up to the corruption, the violence, and all the bad things that Putin was doing.”
“In response, Putin had him poisoned. He had him arrested. He had him prosecuted for fabricated crimes. He sends him to prison. He was held in isolation. Even all that didn’t stop him from calling out Putin’s lies,” Biden said. “Even in prison, he was a…
