Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s body finally handed over to his mother
The body of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has finally been handed over to his mother, his spokesperson has said.
Lyudmila Navalnaya, 69, has been given the body of her son, Kira Yarmysh said on Saturday, more than a week after he died in an Arctic prison on 16 February.
A number of Western leaders have accused Vladimir Putin and the Russian authorities of killing Navalny, the Russian president’s most prominent critic, although the accusations have been strongly denied by the Kremlin.
It comes after Navalny’s wife, Yulia Navalnaya, earlier on Saturday accused Putin of “satanism” and mocking Christianity by trying to force her late husband’s mother
