Aleksei A. Navalny’s political allies on Saturday confirmed his demise, saying that his mom had acquired an official notification of it.
Kira Yarmysh, Mr. Navalny’s spokeswoman, mentioned in an announcement on X that Russian investigators had transferred Mr. Navalny’s physique from a penal colony within the Arctic to the close by city of Salekhard, the place it’s being examined.
“We demand for Aleksei Navalny’s physique to be launched to his household instantly,” Ms. Yarmysh mentioned in her assertion.
Ms. Yarmysh is a member of a staff of Mr. Navalny’s allies. Working from exterior Russia, they continued to hold out his work after his poisoning in 2020 and his subsequent imprisonment, publishing his statements and organizing political occasions.
Mr. Navalny’s mom arrived on Saturday morning on the penal colony within the Kharp settlement, Ms. Yarmysh mentioned in a video assertion. They needed to wait for 2 hours earlier than a jail official got here out to say that Mr. Navalny’s physique was transferred to Salekhard.
Legal professionals and rights teams mentioned the method of retrieving Mr. Navalny’s physique may take just a few days.
Jail authorities mentioned Mr. Navalny fell unconscious and died after a stroll on the penal colony above the Arctic Circle, the place he was transferred to on the finish of December.
Of their assertion about his demise, Russian jail authorities mentioned that its causes had been “being decided.” Native investigators mentioned that they launched a “procedural verify” into Mr. Navalny’s demise. They mentioned that “a set of investigative and operative measures is being carried out aimed toward establishing all circumstances of the incident.”
