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Alexei Navalny's family still does not have access to the body.
Now the mother of the Kremlin critic is making an appeal to Putin.
Charp - Five days after news of Alexei Navalny's death, the family has still not seen the Kremlin critic's body.
Navalny's team, which runs opposition work against Vladimir Putin from exile, accuses the Russian power apparatus of murder.
Now Navalny's mother has spoken out.
In a video message on YouTube, Lyudmila Navalnaya addressed Putin and asked for the body to be returned.
She said she was standing in front of the “Polarwolf” prison camp and had been waiting for the fifth day to be able to see her son.
“I turn to you, Vladimir Putin.
The decision of the question depends only on you.
“Let me finally see my son,” Navalnaya said.
“I demand that Alexei’s body be returned immediately so that I can bury him in a humane manner,” she added.
She has not yet received the body or been told where it will be kept.
Alexei Navalny's mother Lyudmila Navalnaya demands that Vladimir Putin hand over her son's body in a video message.
© NavalnyLiveChannel/YouTube Screenshot
Navalny's body will not be released: Kremlin rejects EU demand
According to Navalny's team, investigators had previously said that the body would be kept under lock and key for another 14 days pending investigations.
On the other hand, relatives and employees of the opposition activist are demanding that the body be returned.
A paramedic reported, among other things, bruises and bruises on the Kremlin critic's body.
According to Russian authorities, Navalny, who was physically weakened after many days of repeated solitary confinement, collapsed in freezing temperatures on Friday (February 16) during a walk in the prison camp in the polar region.
According to the prison service, attempts at resuscitation were unsuccessful.
Navalny was 47 years old at the time of death.
Putin's critics have been repeatedly murdered in Russia in recent years.
Tough action is also being taken against protests and public expressions of condolence - within a few days more than 400 people were arrested at corresponding events.
Many were sentenced to imprisonment or fines.
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The Kremlin has rejected an international investigation into Navalny's death called for by the EU.
“We do not accept such demands at all,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday (February 20), according to Russian news agencies.
As is often the case, Russia sees this as interference in its internal affairs.
Russia hunts dissidents: Alexei Navalny's brother on Putin's wanted list
Lyudmila Navalnaya could now also be worried about the safety of her other son, Oleg Navalny.
Alexei Navalny's brother was put on Putin's wanted list on Tuesday and Russian authorities are looking for him.
According to reports, he has not been in Russia since 2021.
In Germany, Oleg Navalny was seen, among other things, at demonstrations in front of the Russian embassy in January 2022.
According to a report by the Russian state agency
Tass,
the authorities have opened a new criminal case against Oleg Navalny.
It was only in 2021 that Oleg Navalny was sentenced to a one-year suspended sentence for violating Corona regulations.
In addition, in the same year he was accused of calling on the Russian population to take part in a rally for his brother.
(nak/dpa)