Navalny’s mom says Russian authorities pressuring ‘secret’ burial | Human Rights Information

Lyudmila Navalnaya says investigators try to set circumstances on the place, when and the way the outstanding Kremlin critic needs to be buried.

The mom of Alexey Navalny has stated Russian authorities are urgent her to bury the opposition chief’s physique in “secret”.

Talking in a video message posted on YouTube on Thursday, Lyudmila Navalnaya stated Russian authorities had allowed her to see her son’s physique within the morgue.

She stated investigators had been “blackmailing” her over the funeral of the Kremlin critic, who died in detention final week, and making an attempt to drive her to carry a non-public burial ceremony with out mourners.

“They need this to be finished secretly, with no farewell. They wish to carry me to the sting of a cemetery, to a contemporary grave and say: ‘Right here lies your son.’ I don’t conform to this,” she stated.

There was no speedy remark from Russian authorities.

Navalnaya stated she had been taken to the morgue and proven Navalny’s physique on Wednesday night. On Tuesday, she made an attraction to Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Let me lastly see my son,” she stated, urging authorities to launch his physique so she may bury him.

Navalny’s workforce stated the loss of life certificates, additionally seen by Navalnaya on Wednesday, said that he had died of pure causes.

Navalny, Russia’s best-known opposition politician, died out of the blue in an Arctic penal colony final Friday on the age of 47. His aides and household have alleged that the Kremlin murdered him, an allegation Russia has rejected.

“The investigators declare that they know the reason for loss of life,” stated Navalnaya, wearing black and talking in a relaxed voice on video. “They’ve all of the medical and authorized paperwork prepared, which I noticed, and I signed the medical loss of life certificates.

“In keeping with the legislation, they need to have given me Alexey’s physique straight away, however they haven’t finished so till now. As an alternative, they’re blackmailing me, setting me circumstances on the place, when and the way Alexey needs to be buried. That is unlawful.”

Navalny’s mom stated: “I’m recording this video as a result of they began threatening me. Wanting into my eyes, they are saying that if I don’t conform to a secret funeral, they are going to do one thing with my son’s physique.”

She quoted one of many investigators as saying: “Time will not be in your aspect; corpses decompose.”

“I don’t need particular circumstances,” she stated.

“I simply need all the things to be finished in accordance with the legislation. I demand that my son’s physique be returned to me instantly.”

‘We are able to deal with something’

Earlier on Thursday, Navalny’s widow Yulia printed an image of her mourning with the couple’s grieving daughter Dasha.

“My candy little woman. I flew to you to hug and assist you, however you’re sitting there supporting me,” Yulia Navalnaya wrote in a publish printed on Instagram.

“You’re so robust, so courageous and steadfast. We are able to deal with something, my coronary heart. How good that you’re by my aspect.”

Navalny has a 15-year-old son in addition to 23-year-old Dasha, who research in the US. Dasha had repeatedly made calls for for the discharge of her imprisoned father and had additionally given speeches in his honour at award ceremonies.

Navalny’s widow didn’t instantly journey to see her youngsters when his loss of life was introduced on Friday, however as an alternative visited the Munich Safety Convention, the place she blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for her husband’s destiny.

The Kremlin has stated it had nothing to do with Navalny’s loss of life, and that the circumstances are being investigated. Putin has but to touch upon it.