Alexei Navalny’s mother received her son’s death certificate in Jerp prison

Lyudmila Navalnaya, mother of Alexei Navalnyarrived this Saturday at Jarp prison, where received the death certificate of his son, from the hands of prison officials. This has been confirmed by Russian opposition spokesperson Kira Yarmysh on the social network X, who has demanded that Alexei Navalny’s body be immediately handed over to his family.

Yarmysh reported that Navalny had died at 2:17 p.m. local time (09:17 GMT), according to the message sent to his mother.

His body was taken to Salekhard, the town near the prison complex Russian researchers who conducted an ‘investigation’Yarmysh said.

According to Radio Liberty, the deceased’s mother, Liudmila Naválnaya, flew from Moscow to the city of Salekhard, in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, in the past few hours and from there went by car to the city of Jarp. , where is the IK-3 prison, to which his son was transferred last December.

Liudmila Naválnaya, who assured that she does not want to receive condolences, met the opponent at the same place on February 12. “He was healthy and happy to be alive,” the politician’s mother wrote on Facebook on Friday.

Navalny’s team announced the day before that the opponent’s lawyer and relatives would travel to Jarp on Saturday to identify the body, familiarize themselves with the circumstances of his death and learn the results of the autopsy.

Navalny, a 47-year-old former lawyer who has been the best-known face of the opposition to Vladimir Putin, fell unconscious and died Friday after walking in the Arctic prison colony “Polar Wolf” in Kharp, about 1,200 miles (1,900 kilometers) away. (1,900 kilometers) northeast of Moscow, where he served a sentence of almost thirty years.