The body of Putin critic Alexei Navalny is ‘not in the morgue’ after officials said it had been taken to investigators in Salekhard.
Kira Yarmysh, the spokeswoman for Navalny confirmed Navalny's body is missing from the morgue after his mother and lawyer attended the site on Saturday. Writing on X, she said: “Alexey's lawyer and his mother have arrived at the Salekhard morgue. “It's closed, however, the colony has assured them it's working and Navalny's body is there. “The lawyer called the phone number which was on the door. He was told he was the seventh caller today.
She wrote on Facebook: "I don't want to hear any condolences. We saw him in prison on the 12, in a meeting. He was alive, healthy and happy." Navalny had suffered a series of attacks on his health in recent years.He was poisoned with Novichok in 2020, and went to Germany for urgent treatment.On his return to Russia in 2021, he was jailed for violating parole conditions for a 2014 prison sentence, which was widely condemned as a political charge.
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