The body of Russian opposition leader Alexi Navalni has been handed over to his mother, a top ally from Navalni said on his social media account on Saturday.
Ivan Zhedanov, director of Navalni’s anti -corruption Foundation, announced on his telegram account and thanked “all”, who called Russian officials to return his mother to Navalni’s body.
Earlier on Saturday, Yulia Navalanaya, widow of Navalani, accused President Vladimir Putin of making fun of Christianity by trying to agree to her mother to agree to a secret funeral after her death in an Arctic Penal Colony.
“Thank you very much. Write and thank you all the video messages. All of you did what you need to do. Thanks. Alexi Navalani’s body is given to his mother,” Jhednov wrote.
47 -year -old Navalani, Russia’s most famous opposition politician, unexpectedly died on 16 February in an Arctic Penalty Colony and his family is fighting for more than a week to return to him. The major Russians called the authorities to issue the bodies to the authorities and the Western countries have hit Russia with more restrictions as punishment for the second anniversary of the Navalani’s death as well as the second anniversary of Ukraine’s invasion.
Navalni’s mother, Ludmila Navalanaya, is still in the writer, Navalani’s press secretary, character, said on X, in the east TwitterLudmila Navalanaya has been in the Arctic region for more than a week, demanding that Russian officials return their son’s body to him.
“The funeral is still pending,” Yarmish tweeted, questioning whether the authorities would allow it to move forward “as the family wants and as entitled to Alexi.”
Earlier on Saturday, Navalni’s widow said in a video that Navalni’s mother was being “literally tortured” by the officers who threatened to bury Navalani in the Arctic Jail. He said, he said, he suggested to his mother that he does not have much time to take a decision because the body is disintegrating, Navalaneya said.
Navalanaya said on Saturday, “Give us the body of your husband.” “You made him alive, and now you keep on torturing him dead. You make fun of the remains of the dead. ,
The 47 -year -old Navalani, Russia’s most famous opposition politician, unexpectedly died on February 16 at Penal Colony, inspiring hundreds of Russians across the country to stream to make a memorial with flowers and candles.
Officials have detained the score of the people as they try to suppress any large part of sympathy for Putin’s fierce enemy before the presidential election, it is almost certain to win. Russians on social media say that officials do not want to return their family to Navalni’s body, as they are afraid of a public performance of support for them.
Navalanaya accused Putin of killing a conservative Christian, Navalani.
“No true Christian could ever do that Putin is now doing with Alexi’s body,” he said, “What will you do with his corpse? How little will you drown to make fun of the man you murdered?”
Nine days after the death of the opposition leader, it was marked on Saturday, one day when Orthodox Christians used to serve a memorial.
People from all over Russia came out to mark the occasion and gather in orthodox churches, leaving flowers in public monuments or to honor Navalani’s memory by protesting one-person.
According to photos and videos published by independent Russian news outlet Sotavision, Muscovites prepared the Savior Cathedral outside the city to pay their honors. The video is posted near the Russian police nearby and the authorities have stopped many people for an ID check.
According to the OVD-Info Rights Group, at the beginning of Saturday to show support for Navalani, at least 27 people were detained in nine Russian cities, which tracks political arrests.
He included 64 -year -old Sergei Karbatov, who placed flowers to the victims of political repression at a Moscow monument, as well as said with a handwritten note that “Don’t think that this is the end”. It was also arrested, from the city of UFA near Ural mountain, who stood in a street with a sign in a street, “Putin is the killer of Navalani! I demand that the body be returned!”
Putin is often painted in the church, immersed in ice water to celebrate Epipheni and visit the holy sites in Russia. He has said that he has called “traditional values”, without which he once said, “The society is low.”
Kremlin spokesperson Dimitri Peskov dismissed the allegations that Putin was involved in the death of Navalani, “called absolutely baseless, insolent allegations about the head of the Russian state.”
Music composer Nadya Toloconkova, who was widely known as many of the major Russians known to be widely known after spending almost two years in jail for his band cat riot inside Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral, who released a video of Hypochris to release the body of Navocris.
“We were imprisoned for allegedly trampling traditional values. But no one stops you, Putin, your officers and your priests at traditional Russian values that pray for all the murder you do, year -to -year, day after day, “, who lives abroad, said tolaoconicova.
Ludmila Navalanaya said on Thursday that investigators allowed him to look at his son’s body in the morgue in the Arctic city of Salehard. He had filed a case in a court in Mitrhad, in which the officers were refused to issue the body. A closed door hearing was scheduled for March 4.
Navalni spokesman Yarmish said that Ludmila Navalanaya was shown a medical certificate stating that his son died of “natural reasons”.