The mother of Alexei Navalny, the Russian opponent who died in prison on Friday, could not enter the morgue where her son’s body supposedly is, reported this Monday, February 19, the activist’s spokesperson, Kira Yarmish.
«They didn’t let them in. “They literally pushed one of the lawyers out,” Navalny’s team, which blames the Kremlin for the death of its leader, reported on its Telegram channel.
Liudmila Navalnaya, the mother of the opposition leader, went to the morgue on Monday to collect the body, but the employees claimed to not know where the deceased’s body is.
According to OVD-Info, an organization that protects the rights of detainees, more than 50,000 people have already signed a popular petition calling for the authorities to hand over the body to Navalny’s family.
Russian Investigative Committee says investigation ‘has dragged on’
In turn, the Russian Investigative Committee informed the mother and the lawyer that “the investigation into the death has been prolonged.”
«It is unknown how long it can last. At the moment, the causes of death ‘have not been established’. They lie, they buy time and they don’t even hide it,” adds the opponent’s team.
The opposition’s allies directly accuse the president, Vladimir Putin, of ordering his murder in the “Polar Wolf” prison to which he was sent last December after launching a campaign against the re-election of the head of the Kremlin.
«Three and a half years ago Putin tried to assassinate Alexei. Yesterday, he killed him,” Kira Yarmysh, the opposition’s spokesperson, said on Saturday in a video posted on YouTube.
The mother, who arrived on Saturday in the town of Jarp, in the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous district, where she had already met with her son on February 12 and had found him in good spirits.
Prison officials confirmed her son’s death to her, but she has not since had access to the body or the autopsy results.
“We demand that Alexei Navalny’s body be immediately handed over to his family,” Yarmish said.
The family, the opposition, human rights organizations and Western foreign ministries point to the Kremlin as directly responsible for the death of the opponent, who had already been poisoned in 2020, supposedly by the Federal Security Service (FSB), during a trip to Siberia.
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