The mother of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died last week in prison, has filed a lawsuit before the courts for the authorities to speed up the delivery of his body, something that she already demanded from the head of the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, the day before.
This was announced on the social network X by one of Navalny’s close collaborators, Iván Zhdanov.
The Salekhard Court, near the town where Navalny’s prison was located, registered the lawsuit today and plans to study it on March 4 in a “closed hearing” to the public.
The appeal against the “inaction of the Russian Investigative Committee” in the matter of the delivery of the opponent’s body to his family was filed after the letter sent by the mother to Putin.
”I am addressing you, Vladimir Putin. “The solution to this matter depends only on you. Let me see my son once and for all!” said Liudmila Navalnaya, mother of the opponent, in a video posted yesterday on YouTube and X.
Navalny’s allies have said the mother has been banned from morgues and was told by investigators on Monday that her body could remain for “at least two weeks.”
The Russian politician, known as the Kremlin’s number one enemy, died suddenly on the 16th in the “Polar Wolf” Arctic prison.
Navalny’s wife, Yulia Navalnaya, and her team directly blame Russian President Vladimir Putin for ordering the assassination of his main political opponent.
Yesterday, the Kremlin called the accusations against the Russian head of state “baseless” and “rude.”
Demonstrative revenge
Yulia Navalnaya announced Monday that she will continue her husband’s fight against the Kremlin, in a momentous turn for the Russian opposition. She also met with the foreign ministers of the European Union.
His team said Tuesday that it had asked the bloc not to recognize the upcoming Russian presidential election, in which Putin will likely extend his term until at least 2030.
“Do not recognize these elections,” Navalnaya said, according to comments posted by her team on social media.
“A president who killed his main political opponent cannot be legitimate by definition,” he added.
He also called on the bloc to “always see a difference between Putin and Russia.”
“People fleeing war and dictatorship are not their enemies,” he said, calling on the bloc to “help” Russians fleeing their country.
Hundreds of thousands of Russians fled the country after Putin sent troops to Ukraine.
The West has accused the Kremlin of being behind Navalny’s death, which came three years after his imprisonment.
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