Release Navalny’s corpse, Putin is urged by his mother

On Tuesday, the mother of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny made a plea to President Vladimir Putin to step in and give her son’s corpse back so she may bury him in a respectable manner.

In an apparent video, Lyudmila Navalnaya—who has been attempting to get his remains since Saturday—was seen outside the Arctic prison colony where Navalny passed away on Friday. It’s the seventh day that I haven’t seen him. They refused to provide his corpse to me. In the footage, with the barbed wire of Penal Colony No. 3 in Kharp, around 1,900 kilometers from Moscow, a black-clad Navalnaya stated, “And they’re not even telling me where he is.”

“Vladimir Putin, I’m contacting you. You are the only one who can decide how to resolve this. Let me see my kid at last. In the video, which Navalny’s team shared on social media, she said, “I demand that Alexei’s body be released immediately, so that I can bury him.”

Members of Navalny’s team indicated that the preliminary inquiry is still ongoing and that Russian officials have said that the reason of his death is still unclear. They have also refused to release his remains for the next two weeks.