Western leaders point finger at Putin after Alexei Navalny’s death in jail

Russian opposition leader's death described as political assassination attributable to president

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Western leaders have held Vladimir Putin directly responsible for the death of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, as the US president, Joe Biden, called it yet more proof of Putin's brutality".

Navalny, 47, died while being held in a jail about 40 miles north of the Arctic Circle, where he had been sentenced to 19 years under a special regime".