Lyudmila Navalnaya mentioned on Thursday she is resisting power from government to conform to a secret burial of her son.
The mom of Alexei Navalny mentioned on Thursday she were ready to look her son’s frame in the end.
Lyudmila Navalnaya mentioned she is resisting sturdy power from government to conform to a secret burial of the past due Russian opposition determine out of doors the general public eye.
Speaking in a video commentary, she mentioned investigators allowed her to look her son’s frame within the morgue.
Navalnaya reaffirmed the call for to offer Navalny’s frame to her.
“They are blackmailing me, they are setting conditions where, when and how my son should be buried,” she mentioned. “They want it to do it secretly without a mourning ceremony.”
Navalny’s spokesperson Kira Yarmysh mentioned on X that his mom was once additionally proven a clinical certificates mentioning that the 47-year-old baby-kisser died of “natural causes.”
Yarmysh did not specify what the ones had been.
On 16 February, Navalny fell subconscious and died at an Arctic penal colony, the place he was once serving a three-decade jail sentence.
Officials have no longer showed the reason for loss of life, despite the fact that Navalny supporters and Western politicians level the finger at Putin.
Navalny’s mom has filed a lawsuit at a court docket in Salekhard contesting officers’ refusal to free up her son’s frame. A closed-door listening to has been scheduled for 4 March.
On Tuesday, she appealed to Putin to free up her son’s stays in order that she may bury him with dignity.
In the video launched Thursday, Navalnaya mentioned she had spent just about 24 hours within the Salekhard workplace of the Investigative Committee. Here officers informed her that they’d decided his explanation for loss of life, with the bureaucracy in a position. Yet, she should first conform to a secret funeral.
“They want to take me to the outskirts of the cemetery to a fresh grave and say: ‘Here lies your son.’ I don’t agree to this. I want you too — to whom Alexey is dear, for whom his death was a personal tragedy — to have the opportunity to say goodbye to him,” she mentioned.
Over the previous many years, the Navalny rose to popularity because the fiercest opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin, crusading towards professional corruption and staging large anti-Kremlin protests.
