Almost 90,000 people demanded that the SC hand over Navalny’s body to the family

89,975 people sent a request to the Investigative Committee of Russia to release the body of politician Alexei Navalny and his family. Earlier, “OVD-Info” encouraged to write appeals through the “Dyatel” service of human rights defenders.

“OVD-Info” notes that the law guarantees the safety of the citizen in connection with his treatment. “It is impossible to persecute a person, even if there is criticism of the bodies in the circulation,” the publication says.

The day before, the politician’s mother Lyudmila Navalnaya reported that the members of the Investigative Committee were blackmailing her, promising to hand over her son’s body only if his funeral was held secretly and without a farewell.

“They blackmail me, they set conditions for me: where, when and how Aleksey should be buried,” said Navalnaya. that everything was done according to the law.”

• Navalny died on February 16 in a colony in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District beyond the Arctic Circle. The politician was 47 years old.
• On February 20, Lyudmila Navalnaya recorded a video appeal to the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, demanding that she hand over her son’s body. The press secretary of the president, Dmitry Peskov, said that he would not comment on this, calling the extradition of the body “not the Kremlin’s business.”
• In the conclusion about the death, it is said that the politician died of natural causes, reported ego press secretary Kira Yarmysh. Navalny’s widow Yulia claims that he was killed. After establishing the cause of Navalny’s death, his body must be released to the family within two days, according to the law “On burial and funeral matters”.