Alexei Navalny’s mother, Lyudmila Navalnaya, said today she was shown her son’s body in the morgue in the Russian town of Salekhard. Russian authorities told her they had all the ‘medical and legal documents, ‘ though they refused to show them to her.
On Navalny’s YouTube channel, Navalnaya also said that the Russians were “threatening” her into agreeing to a secret funeral for her son, or “they will do something with my son’s body.”
“They are blackmailing me, setting me the conditions of where, when and how Alexey should be buried,” she said.
Russia would like to bury his body “secretly without saying goodbye,” she added.
Navalny’s mother says she does not want “special conditions,” but simply wants her son to be treated “according to the law.”
“I demand that my son’s body be returned to me immediately,” she said.
In related news, the hundreds of mourners who protested his death in Russia have been arrested and many served with draft papers to be sent to the front lines.