Navalny's mother calls on Putin to release body
The Hindu
Mother of Alexei Navalny demands Putin release his body, sparking accusations of murder and political turmoil in Russia.
The mother of Alexei Navalny urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to “immediately” release the body of her son, in her first comments since his death in an Arctic prison.
Navalny’s mother, Lyudmila Navalnaya, travelled to the remote IK-3 penal colony on Saturday, the morning after his death was announced, and has since been barred from seeing his body.
“I appeal to you, Vladimir Putin. The solution to the issue depends only on you,” she said in a video published by his team.
“Let me finally see my son. I demand that Alexei’s body be released immediately so that I can bury him in a humane way.”
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