The team of the Russian political opponent affirms this Saturday, February 17 that the body of Alexeï Navalny is not at the morgue in the Arctic city of Salekhard indicated by the Russian authorities, after having asked them that his remains be handed over to them
"immediately".
Yesterday, the activist's mother was formally informed of her son's sudden death in prison on Friday.
“Alexei's lawyer and his mother arrived at the Salekhard morgue. It was closed, even though the (penal) colony had assured that it was functioning and that Navalny's body was there. The lawyer called the phone number on the door. We told him that he was the seventh to call today and that Alexei's body was not in the morgue
,” said the opponent's spokesperson Kira on X (ex-Twitter). Iarmich.
The Kremlin's number one opponent died at the age of 47 in the "special regime" colony IK-3, located in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, sixty kilometers beyond the Arctic Circle.
It was in a laconic press release that the FSIN, the prison service, announced Friday at midday that Alexeï Navalny
“felt unwell after a walk and almost immediately lost consciousness”
.
The body taken away by “investigators”
“A colony (penitentiary) employee said that Alexei Navalny's body was in Salekhard
,” a town in Russia's Arctic region where his prison was located, and had been taken away by
“investigators”
for
"carry out
'research'
"
, indicated the opponent's spokesperson, Kira Iarmich.
“We demand that the body of Alexeï Navalny be immediately handed over to his family
,” she added, specifying that the prison authorities had given his mother, Lyudmila Navalanïa, an
“official”
document confirming the death.