In a video published Tuesday, Alexeï Navalny's mother called on Vladimir Putin to hand over her son's body “without delay”.
This Thursday, she claims to have been able to see the remains of the Russian opponent and accuses the authorities of “blackmail” to “secretly” bury Navalny.
According to the deceased's team, Russian investigators said on Monday that they would not return his body for at least 14 days in order to carry out an "expertise".
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“Let me finally see my son”: the message from Alexei Navalny’s mother to Vladimir Putin
After miraculously surviving a poisoning in August 2020, then being treated in Germany, Alexeï Navalny, who became popular thanks to his investigations into the corruption of Russian power, chose to return to Russia in January 2021.
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He was immediately arrested and successively sentenced to increasingly harsh sentences, in increasingly difficult conditions of detention, and was often locked up in the cold of an isolation cell.