Dhaka, March 21 -- Nothing breaks the heart so much as the tears of a young woman suddenly bereft of her husband. Nothing leaves a gash in the soul as much as the repressed suffering of a woman who loses her partner in a bad working out of nature or the malevolence of individuals.

A few weeks ago, Yulia Navalnaya lost her husband Alexei Navalny in the cold, forbidding loneliness of prison in Siberia. Navalny was a brave fighter for freedom to underpin politics in Russia. He was young, not yet fifty. In his court appearances, always in a cage, he appeared confident and defiant. And when he died in Siberia, it was news the world did not take lightly.

Within days of Navalny's death, Yulia Navalnaya spoke before the European parliament. You...