The late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's mother Lyudmila said on Thursday that she had been taken to see his body by investigators, after days of being barred from the morgue.
"Yesterday evening they secretly took me to the morgue where they showed me Alexei," she said in a video released on social media from Salekhard, the nearest town to the Arctic prison where he died last week.
Says officials pressuring her into 'secret' burial
The mother of Alexei Navalny, Russian President Vladimir Putin's main opponent who died in an Arctic prison last week, said Thursday officials are pressuring her into a "secret" burial for her son.
"They are blackmailing me, they put conditions for where, when and how Alexei should be buried. This is illegal," Lyudmila Navalnaya said in a video published by his team. "They want it to be done in secret."