Alexei Navalny had long been a vocal opponent of President Putin’s administration; he is pictured here in Moscow in 2020.
Written by James Gregory
News from BBC
A close aide to the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny claims that his mother has been unable to get his remains since he passed away in an Arctic prison.
According to Kira Yarmysh, Lyudmila, his mother, was informed that his body would not be given to her until a post-mortem examination was finished.
According to Navalny’s team, President Vladimir Putin gave the order for the anti-corruption activist’s death.
400 Russians, according to a rights organization, had been detained for paying respects.
The 47-year-old’s unexpected death is attributed on Russian officials, according to Western governments, but foreign ministers from the
Since the Russian prison service revealed on Friday that Navalny had fallen ill and passed away at the isolated IK-3 jail in the Arctic Circle, Mr. Putin has refrained from making any public remarks.
The president has been notified, the Kremlin stated in the immediate aftermath.
During a meeting with British officials on Saturday, the Foreign Ministry of Russia stated that it rejected “biased and unrealistic” views regarding the reason of his death.
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Since the Russian prison service revealed on Friday that Navalny had fallen ill and passed away at the isolated IK-3 jail in the Arctic Circle, Mr. Putin has refrained from making any public remarks.
The president has been notified, the Kremlin stated in the immediate aftermath.
During a meeting with British officials on Saturday, the Foreign Ministry of Russia stated that it rejected “biased and unrealistic” views regarding the reason of his death.
Currently serving a three-decade term for politically motivated charges at the “Polar Wolf” penitentiary colony in Kharp, roughly 1,200 miles (1,900 km) north of Moscow, Navalny was one of the most well-known faces of Russian resistance to Mr. Putin’s regime.
According to his team, the jail service informed his mother Lyudmila Navalnaya that he passed away on Friday following a collapse and loss of consciousness while out on a stroll.
According to Ms. Yarmysh, when she visited the colony on Saturday, she was given an official notice indicating the time of death, which was 14:17 local time (09:17 GMT).
Ivan Zhdanov, another associate of Navalny, claimed that the activist’s mother was informed that “sudden death syndrome”—a general, imprecise name for a condition that might span
According to his team, Ms. Navalnaya was informed that his body had been transported to Salekhard, a town nearby to the prison complex; but, upon her arrival, the morgue was closed.
She was allegedly informed by prison officials that a second post-mortem examination was necessary because the first one was inconclusive.
Allies of Navalny demand that the body be given to his family “immediately” and allege that the Russian government is deliberately hiding Navalny’s remains in order to “cover traces”.
Meanwhile, more than 400 people have been arrested following vigils and gatherings across Russia, according to independent Russian human rights monitoring group OVD-Info.
OVD-Info, which reports on freedom of assembly in Russia, said arrests had taken place in 36 cities, with the largest numbers in the capital Moscow and St Petersburg.
On Saturday, police in Moscow detained about 15 people who had laid flowers and lit candles at the foot of the “Wall of Grief” monument to the victims of repression during the Soviet-era.
Protests are also being held near Russian embassies in many countries.
Numerous nations are witnessing protests in the vicinity of Russian embassies.
The G7 foreign ministers gathered at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday honored the Russian activist with a minute of silence.
“Taking action” was the statement made by British Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron.
“We look at whether there are individual people who are responsible and whether there are individual measures and actions we can take when appalling human rights outrages like this take place,” said Cameron, adding that he would not reveal in advance the measures the UK intended to take.
Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, was also in Munich. He called Mr. Putin a “thug” and said it was “absurd” to see him as the “legal head of a
