Alexei Navalny 'highly likely' was killed, say allies of the Kremlin critic
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FILE PHOTO: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny speaks with journalists after he was released from a detention centre in Moscow, Russia August 23, 2019. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina/File Photo
MOSCOW - Allies of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Kira Yarmysh and Ivan Zhdanov, said on Friday that Navalny was "highly likely" to have been killed in a penal colony.
Yarmysh said that Navalny's lawyer, who was previously reported to be on his way to the Kharp settlement where the penal colony is located, would arrive there early on Saturday. REUTERS
