{"id":41634,"date":"2024-02-19T09:04:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T09:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=41634"},"modified":"2024-02-19T09:04:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T09:04:45","slug":"navalnys-mother-not-allowed-into-the-morgue-in-russia-spokesperson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2024\/02\/19\/navalnys-mother-not-allowed-into-the-morgue-in-russia-spokesperson\/","title":{"rendered":"Navalny’s mother not allowed into the morgue in Russia – spokesperson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Alexei Navalny\u2019s mother and his lawyers were not allowed into the morgue in the Russian town of\u00a0Salekhard<\/strong>, near the prison colony where authorities said he died, Navalny\u2019s spokesperson,\u00a0Kira Yarmysh<\/strong>, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cOne of the lawyers was literally pushed out,\u201d Yarmysh wrote on X, adding that morgue staff would not answer a question about where Navalny\u2019s body was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Navalny\u2019s mother,\u00a0Lyudmila Navalnaya<\/strong>, and his lawyer travelled over the weekend to the notorious \u201cPolar Wolf\u201d IK-3 penal colony in Russia\u2019s Arctic north, where Navalny\u00a0had been held since last year, to track down his body, but received contradicting information from various institutions over its location and left without recovering or seeing her son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who was a fierce Kremlin critic, had been serving a decades-long prison term on various charges, the latest of which\u00a0was a 19-year sentence on six counts, in the remote penal colony within the Arctic Circle. He had been behind bars since returning from Germany in January 2021 for charges that he rejected as politically motivated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 47-year-old former lawyer fell unconscious and died on Friday after a walk at the \u201cPolar Wolf\u201d penal colony in Kharp<\/strong>, about 1,900km (1,200 miles) northeast of Moscow, the prison service said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navalny\u2019s mother was told on Saturday at the prison colony that he had died from \u201csudden death syndrome\u201d, a vague term for different hearth conditions that end in death, according to Navalny\u2019s team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yarmysh said Lyudmila Navalnaya, 69, and lawyers were told that the official verification of the cause of death had been extended and that it was unclear how long it would take.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe cause of death is \u2018undetermined\u2019,\u201d Yarmysh said, adding that the Russian authorities were lying and stalling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alexei Navalny\u2019s mother and his lawyers were not allowed into the morgue in the Russian town of\u00a0Salekhard, near the prison colony where authorities said he died, Navalny\u2019s spokesperson,\u00a0Kira Yarmysh, said. \u201cOne of the lawyers was literally pushed out,\u201d Yarmysh wrote on X, adding that morgue staff would not answer a question about where Navalny\u2019s body […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":41637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,12],"tags":[12934,7738,9194,1279,7234,5241,7896,66,1152,10776,5340,7964,11973,8306,3457,5217,11307,12790,9656,594,10353],"class_list":["post-41634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituary","category-world-news","tag-alexei-navalny","tag-alexei-navalyna","tag-charges","tag-circle","tag-death","tag-died","tag-funeral","tag-germany","tag-kremlin","tag-lawyer","tag-moscow","tag-north","tag-one","tag-prison","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-sentence","tag-weekend","tag-wolf","tag-who","tag-x"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41639,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41634\/revisions\/41639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}