This Monday, for the third day in a row, the Russian authorities refused deliver the body of opposition leader Alexei Navalny to his family, who died suddenly last Friday in an Arctic prison.

“They weren’t allowed in. “They literally pushed one of the lawyers out” Navalny’s team, blaming the Kremlin for the death of their leader, reported this on their Telegram channel.

Mother politician Lyudmila Navalnaya appeared at the morgue on Monday pick up the body, but employees said they did not know where the body of the deceased was located.

According to OVD-Info, an organization that defends the rights of detainees, The popular petition has already been signed by more than 50 thousand people. for the authorities to deliver the body to Navalny’s family.

In turn, the Investigative Committee of Russia informed the mother and lawyer that “The investigation into the death has been extended.”

“It is unknown how long this may continue. At this time, the cause of death has not been established. They lie, buy time and don’t even hide it,” adds the opposing team.

The Kremlin assured today that an official investigation into the causes of death it’s still going on and declined to comment on the authorities’ refusal to release the body to the family.

“The investigation is still ongoing,” presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said during a daily telephone news conference in which he crossed out the “d.”and “rude” statements by Western leaders who hold the Kremlin responsible for the death of their opponent.

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Peskov stressed that whether or not Navalny’s body will be delivered to his relatives “This is not the Kremlin’s business.”

“We are not striving for this. “This is not a function of the presidential administration.”said the spokesman, who also denied that Russian leader Vladimir Putin was reacting to the death of his number one enemy.

Opposition allies directly accuse the president, Vladimir Putin orders his murder in prison “Polar Wolf”, where he was sent last December after the start of a campaign against the re-election of the head of the Kremlin.

“Three and a half years ago, Putin tried to kill Alexei. Yesterday he killed him.” This was stated on Saturday by opposition spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh in a video posted on YouTube.

The mother arrived on Saturday in the city of Zharp, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, where on February 12 she met her son and I found him in a good mood.

Prison officials confirmed her son’s death, but she has since He had no access to the body nor to the autopsy results.

“We demand that the body of Alexei Navalny be immediately delivered to his family.” – Yarmysh noted.

The family, the opposition, human rights groups and Western foreign ministries point to the Kremlin as bears direct responsibility for the death of the enemy, who was already poisoned in 2020, allegedly by employees of the Federal Security Service (FSB) during a trip to Siberia.

(EFE)