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

Lyudmila Navalnaya, mother of Alexei Navalnyarrived this Saturday at Jarp prison, where has received the death certificate of his son, from the hands of prison officials. This has been confirmed by Kira Yarmysh, spokesperson for the Russian opposition, 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 notice given to his mother.

His body was taken to Salekhard, the city near the prison complex, by Russian investigators who were conducting an “investigation”said Yarmysh.

According to Radio Liberty, the mother of the deceased, Liudmila Naválnaya, has flown in the last few hours from Moscow to the city of Salekhard, in the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous district, and from there she has gone by car to the town 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 with the opponent in that 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, become familiar 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 on Friday after a hike in the “Polar Wolf” Arctic prison colony in Kharp, about 1,900 kilometers away ( 1,200 miles) northeast of Moscow, where he was serving a sentence of almost 30 years.