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The Venezuelan Human Rights activist, Lilian Tintori, held a meeting this Tuesday with Yulia Navalnaya, widow of Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who died last February in unclear circumstances.
Tintori is the wife of Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, who spent several years in prison for his fight in defense of democratic values.
The meeting between Tintori and Navalnaya was in Berlin, Germany, where a tribute was held to commemorate what would have been Navalny’s 48th birthday on June 4.
«I met Yulia Navalnaya, wife of the leader and hero of freedom Alexei Navalny. “Her story impacts the world today,” Tintori said on her Instagram account.
Tintori recalled in his publication that Yulia supported Navalny «when the Putin regime unjustly imprisoned him, violating his human rights and murdering him in prison; Today Yulia follows Navalny’s path, working for what her husband believed and using her voice to demand the end of the dictatorship and of all the political prisoners in the world».
Following the murder of her husband by Russian authorities, Navalnaya vowed to continue her work.
«It is an honor to have spoken with her, to listen to her words and to see how out of love she has followed in her husband’s footsteps to achieve freedom,» Tintori emphasized.
The Russian Federal Penitentiary Service announced Navalny’s death on February 16. Investigators handed over Navalny’s body to her mother, Lyudmila Navalnaya, only on February 24. Security forces persuaded the woman to bury her son secretly. The politician was buried on March 1 at the Borisov cemetery in Moscow.
Navalny’s widow, Yulia, denounced that the delay by the Russian authorities in handing over the body was because they were waiting for the traces of Novichok, the nerve agent favored by Russian Intelligence to kill dissidents and opponents, to disappear.
A few days before his death, Navalny he was sent for the 27th time to Shizo, a room with detention conditions even harsher than those of normal cells.
The European Union, the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada have imposed sanctions against Russia over Navalny’s murder.
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