Alexei Navalny’s Mother Sues To Retrieve Son’s Body In Russian Court

The mom of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny hasactually submitted a claim in Russian court lookingfor her child’s body for burial, the state news company Tass reported Wednesday.

Since Navalny’s abrupt death Friday at age 47, his mom, Lyudmila Navalnaya, hasactually implicated Russian authorities of hiding his stays.

She submitted her appeal in the city of Salekhard, around 30 miles from the Polar Wolf center where Navalny invested his last months. The court arranged a closed-door hearing March 4 to address her claim, The Associated Press reported, delaying the possibility of a swift funeralservice.

Polar Wolf is infamously ruthless. According to the BBC, detainees are subjected to cumulative penalty that can include standing exterior in Arctic winterseason temperaturelevels without coats, or being splashed with water exterior in the cold.

Navalnaya shot a video near the center earlier this week enticing straight to Russian President Vladimir Putin for her child’s release.

“I have not been able to see his body for 5 days. They have not handed it over to me, and have not even informed me where it is,” she stated.

“I appeal to you, Vladimir Putin, duetothefactthat the service to this issue depends exclusively on you. Let me lastly see my kid. I need that Alexei’s body be launched instantly so that I can bury him in a humane method.”

Navalny’s household hasactually been informed they might not have his body for 2 weeks, pending “some sort of ‘chemical evaluation,’” a representative for Navalny stated on the platform previously understood as Twitter.

His partner, Yulia Navalnaya, openly implicated Putin of murder, declaring that his operatives utilized the verysame toxin formerly utilized on him — the nerve representative Novichok. The factor authorities would not release his body, she declared, was duetothefactthat they were waiting for traces of the Novichok to dissipate.

Navalny was put in a coma following a poisoning event in 2020; he blamed Putin for the occurrence after his healing, presuming that somebody laced his tea with the nerve representative.

During an psychological speech in Brussels, Yulia Navalnaya informed the European Union Foreign Affairs Council: “[T]hree days ago, Vladimir Putin eliminated my otherhalf, Alexei Navalny. He eliminated my closest individual, he eliminated the dad of my kids, he eliminated half of my heart and half of my soul.”

Putin has rejected participation in Navalny’s death.

While hundreds of brave Russians have come out to mourn Navalny in public, some 400 of them haveactually been apprehended for doing so, according to The Washington Post. Young male mourners have apparently been handed draft notifications amidst Russia’s two-year-old war in Ukraine.