Alexei Navalny's body is not in the morgue specified by the Russian authorities: This is what the collaborators of the Russian dissident who died in prison yesterday claim. Navalny's lawyer, who arrived in the city of Salekhard today with Navalny's mother Lyudmila, called the number of a morgue and learned that “Alexei's body is not in the morgue,” since he had specified the prison where Navalny died: his employees had it written telegram.
Alexei Navalny's spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, today accused Russian authorities of “lying” about the cause of his opponent's death and trying to “do everything not to hand over his body.” Navalny's lawyer was told that “the cause of death has not yet been established,” Yarmysh said on the team's Telegram channel, Dozhd reported.
Over 200 people have now been stopped in various Russian citiesincluding Moscow and St. Petersburg, at rallies in memory of Navalny: This was reported by human rights NGO OVD-Info, as reported by the Guardian. At least 212 people were stopped between yesterday and today during events organized in Russia to commemorate Navalny, the NGO says, stressing that this is the largest wave of protest arrests in 18 months. According to the NGO, police stopped at least 109 people in St. Petersburg and at least 39 in Moscow, the country's two largest cities.
The group also reported stops in smaller towns across Russia: from the border town of Belgorod, where a Ukrainian rocket attack killed seven people on Thursday, to Vorkuta, a mining outpost in the Arctic.
The British government summoned diplomats from the Russian embassy and said Russian authorities were held “fully responsible” for Navalny’s death. Britain's Foreign Office said in its statement that Navalny's death in his Arctic prison must be subject to “a full and transparent investigation.”
Alexei Navalny's mother was officially informed of the Putin opponent's death in prison. His team said this, adding that Navalny's relatives had asked that his body be handed over to them “immediately”.
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