Alexei Navalny: Mother demands Putin return son's body - BBC News

Lyudmila Navalnaya calls on the Russian president to allow her to give her son Alexei a decent burial.

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"Let me see my son's body" - Navalny's mother makes plea to Putin

The mother of Alexei Navalny, the Putin critic who died in a Russian prison, has called on President Vladimir Putin to release his body.

In a video filmed outside the colony where he died on Friday, she said she had been trying to see him for five days but didn't even know where he was.

And Navalny's wife Yulia urged the authorities not to stop his loved ones from saying goodbye to him.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68346871

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