According to a spokeswoman for her organization, the mother of the late dissident Alexei Navalny is being pressured with an ultimatum. “An investigator called her an hour ago and gave her an ultimatum. “Either she agrees to the secret burial of her son within three hours without public participation, or Alexei will be buried in the penal colony,” the spokeswoman wrote today on the short message service X (Twitter).
Navalny's mother, Ludmilla Navalnaya, demands the return of her son's body and opposes a secret burial. “I don’t agree with this,” she said in a previously released video. According to her, the body was shown to her at the mortuary on Wednesday night. She also saw the death certificate. Navalny then died of natural causes.
The 47-year-old died suddenly last week at his Siberian penal colony. Russia rejects Western calls for an independent investigation into the death as interference in internal affairs. His mother and those around him accuse the Kremlin of murder, which the Kremlin vehemently rejects.