Appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin from the mother of Russian dissident
Alexei Navalny
who died in a penal colony in recent days: 'Give me back my son's body'.
Lyudmila Navalnaya
released a video with an appeal to Vladimir Putin to return the body of her son to her.
The message was published by Navalny's team.
Navalny's mother speaks outdoors, in the snow, in front of the IK-3 penal colony, where her son died on February 16.
"For the fifth day I haven't seen him, they don't give me his body and they don't even tell me where he is," says the woman.
"I turn to you, Vladimir Putin - the message continues - the solution to the problem depends only on you. Let me finally see my son. I ask that Alexei's body be handed over immediately so that I can bury him humanely".
The video ends with a shot of the dome of a church on which a cross stands.
The head of Navalny's anti-corruption foundation, Ivan Zhdanov, stressed that a written appeal was submitted to Putin at the same time.
Meanwhile, Russia does not accept requests for an international investigation into the death of
Alexei Navalny
, especially if they come from
Josep Borrell
.
Kremlin spokesman
Dmitry Peskov
said this , quoted by Tass.
To the words against Putin coming from the widow of the Russian dissident who died in recent days, Peskov responded by calling them "absolutely unfounded and crude accusations against the Russian head of state".
Yulia Navalnaya, who yesterday declared in a video that Putin killed her husband.
Dmitri Peskov also stated that
Putin would not have seen yesterday's footage
in which Yulia Navalnaya says that she will continue her husband's work.
"No, the president didn't see it," Peskov said, according to Tass.
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