Yulia Navalnaya, widow of the celebrated late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, said Wednesday she had evidence for the first time from laboratories in two Western countries that her husband had been poisoned in a penal colony in February of last year.

Navalny, a fearless politician and one of the few figures to pose a real political threat to Russian President Vladimir Putin, died in IK-3 special regime corrective colony in Kharp, in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug in Russia’s far northern Arctic region.

The two laboratories tested samples from Navalny that had been smuggled out of the country and had concluded he had been poisoned, his wife said in a video statement. She had been unable to obtain their final reports detailing what kind of poison had been used and called on t

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