Canada Global(Web News) Canada summoned Russia’s ambassador on Wednesday to protest the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and demanded an investigation from the Kremlin, a government spokesman said.
A senior Global Affairs Canada official met with Ambassador Oleg Stepanov to express Canada’s “strongest condemnation” of Navalny’s death in Russian custody, a spokesman for Foreign Affairs Minister Melania Jolie’s office said in a statement
. The official also called on the Kremlin to conduct a full and transparent investigation into the death and return Navalny’s body to his family without delay.
Russia’s prison agency said Navalny, who is serving a 19-year sentence in a penal colony in the Arctic. was biting, lost consciousness after a walk and passed away.
Russian authorities have said Navalny’s cause of death is still unknown and have refused to release his body for the next two weeks because Preliminary investigation is on
