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The mother of Kremlin opponent Navalny, who died in the prison camp, searched for her son's body for days.
Now she has been given access and is making serious accusations against the authorities.
Moscow - The mother of Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny, who died in a Russian prison camp, has been given access to his body after days of waiting.
Lyudmila Navalnaya said in a video that she saw her son's body in the morgue but was not handed over to it.
The 47-year-old died in the prison camp last week.
Since then, the mother had been looking for the body in the Arctic Circle region.
In the video, she again demanded that the body be handed over to her so that she could bury it.
Alexei Navalny's mother was released by Russian authorities after days to see her son's body.
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Mother knows alleged cause of death
Navalnaya accused the power apparatus of “blackmailing” her and wanting to secretly bury her son.
“They set conditions as to where, when and how I should bury Alexei.
This is against the law,” she said.
The investigators threatened to do something with the body if she did not agree to a secret burial.
That's why she turned to the public because relatives, but also supporters, should have the opportunity to say goodbye to Navalny.
Navalny's mother also said that she had been informed of the completion of the medical examination, including the cause of death.
But she didn't name them.
Navalny's spokeswoman Kira Jarmysch wrote on the online platform X (formerly Twitter) shortly after the mother's video was published that medical expertise had allegedly determined a natural death.
In contrast, Navalny's wife Yulia, his team and human rights activists accuse Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin of having the opposition figure, who barely survived a poison attack in 2020, murdered.
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Navalny's mother said she spent 24 hours alone with investigators and the detective.
On Wednesday evening she was admitted to the morgue in the city of Salekhard in northern Russia.
Lyudmila Navalnaya did not comment on the condition of her son's body.
According to authorities, Navalny died on February 16 under unclear circumstances in the penal camp with the unofficial name “Arctic Wolf” in the Siberian Arctic region of Yamal.
The politician, weakened by the poison attack and repeated solitary confinement in the camp, is said to have collapsed during a tour of the icy prison yard and died despite attempts to resuscitate him.
(dpa)