The body of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been handed over to his mother, Lyudmila Navalnaya. This was reported by a spokesperson for the Putin critic who died last week Saturday on X. In recent days there has been much uncertainty about whether Navalny’s body would be secretly buried or delivered to relatives. “Thank you very much to everyone who [de terugkeer van het lichaam] has demanded together with us,” the spokesperson wrote. “We do not yet know whether the authorities will intervene if the funeral is arranged as the family wants and as Alexey deserves.”
Lyudmila Navalnaya was told on Friday that she had three hours to agree to a “secret” funeral without a public service, otherwise he would be buried in the Arctic prison camp where he died. She has said she is unwilling to negotiate with authorities and filed charges. On Wednesday she was able to view her son’s body, but could not take it with her.
‘You continue to torture him after his death’
She revealed that authorities ordered her to sign a dying declaration stating that Navalny died of natural causes. According to IK-3, the prison where Navalny was subjected to horrific abuse, he died during a “walk.” Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya, has publicly accused Russian President Vladimir Putin and his regime of killing her husband with the nerve agent Novichok and holding his body until the last traces of the poison disappeared from his blood. are.
“Give us the body of my husband,” Yulia Navalnaya said. “You tortured him in life, and now you continue to torture him in death. You are making fun of a dead person.”
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