The mother of Alexei Navalny, the leading Russian opposition figure, has sent a video message to Russian President Vladimir Putin pleading for his body to be released.
Navalny, died at a remote Arctic penal colony.
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In the one-minute video, Lyudmila Navalnaya stands outside the “Polar Wolf” prison camp where her son had been jailed while serving a decades-long sentence.
Russian authorities said the 47-year-old suddenly died there on Friday while taking a walk.
“I appeal to you Vladimir Putin, because the solution to this problem depends only on you,” Navalnaya says.
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“Let me see my son. I demand that Alexei’s body be released immediately so that I can bury him in a humane way.”
Navalny’s family and aides said they were yet to even be told where his body is being kept. (dpa/NAN)