Russian justice filed a complaint this Thursday presented by Lyudmila Navalnaya, mother of the late Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, against prison authorities for failing to provide his son with the necessary medical care while he was in prison.

The Labitnang City Court rejected the complaint filed against the management of the penitentiary system of the Yamalo-Nenets District considering that the process can only be initiated by the prisoner himselfnow deceased, according to the newspaper Moscow Times.

Ivan Zhdanov, former director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation and Navalny’s ally, confirmed the information and recalled that Navalny “has filed numerous complaints with the authorities that he is not allowed to receive medical care” in prison.

“All their demands were rejected. Now he has been killed, and his family’s claims have also not been heard.”

Navalny died on February 16. while he was imprisoned at the Polar Wolf Prison in a remote area of ​​the Arctic, where he was serving a sentence of approximately 30 years in prison for fraud and extremism. The opponent was transferred to this prison in December 2023.

Russian prison authorities said that Navalny47 years old He lost consciousness and died after a walk outside of prison.

Team Navalny after his death, he stated that Navalny’s death certificate indicated who died of natural causes.

Family and supporters Navalny likes many international leaders They described his death as murder and They accused the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, an accusation that the Kremlin angrily denied. Navalny survived poisoning with a Soviet-era nerve agent in Russia in 2020, as well as years of harsh treatment in prison, including long periods in solitary confinement.