The investigator gave Navalny's mother an ultimatum. She is forced to agree to a secret funeral for her son within three hours.

The investigator gave the mother of politician Alexei Navalny, Lyudmila, an ultimatum: she must agree to a secret funeral within three hours, otherwise the politician will be buried in a colony. This was announced by the politician’s press secretary Kira Yarmysh.

Lyudmila Navalnaya refused to negotiate with investigators because they do not have the authority to decide how and where she should bury her son. “She demands compliance with the law, which obliges investigators to hand over the body within two days from the moment the cause of death is established. According to the medical documents she signed, these two days expire tomorrow. She insists that the authorities allow the funeral and memorial service to be held in accordance with customs,” Yarmysh clarified.

The day before, Lyudmila Navalnaya said that she was being blackmailed into agreeing to the politician’s secret funeral. Navalny’s ally Ivan Zhdanov noted that Lyudmila Navalnaya “was in hell” for 24 hours, communicating with the investigator from Salekhard Varapaev without a lawyer. In her appeal, Navalnaya said that she would seek the extradition of her son’s body.

Earlier, Kholod found out that employees of IK-3 in Kharp, where Navalny died, tortured convicted Bakhrombek Sharifov to death in July 2022 and tried to pass off his death as suicide. According to four sources, Sharifov suffocated during torture: he was put in a straitjacket, rolled into a mattress and tied with tape. This torture was often practiced in IK-3, former prisoners told Kholod. When it was discovered that Sharifov had died, the instruments of torture were burned and it was stated that the prisoner had hanged himself. An autopsy refuted this version. Five prison employees were charged in this case.

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