THE Kremlin is “doing everything he can to avoid” handing over Alexei Navalny’s physique, sources claimed tonight.
Russia at present stated Navalny, 47, died of “sudden death syndrome” however his household – and critics – consider this can be a murderous cover-up.
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The claims have been spewed to the mom and lawyer of Putin’s largest critic as they waited to say their last farewells on the morgue.
However, they nonetheless have not been ready to – they’re but to see him.
They have been informed Navalny’s physique was nonetheless not within the morgue in Salekhard – within the Arctic Circle – the place officers informed the dad’s family members it had been taken to.
This has sparked extra suspicions round Navalny’s death, which many throughout the globe have labelled as “murder”.
Critics have now accused crooked Russian authorities of hiding the corpse to “cover their tracks” over the 47-year-old’s demise.
Tonight a supply shut to the Kremlin’s enemy stated: “They are doing everything they can to avoid handing over the body.”
Navalny’s spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh stated earlier at present: “Alexei’s lawyer and his mom arrived on the Salekhard morgue.
“It was closed regardless of the jail saying that it was open and that Navalny’s physique was there.
“The lawyer was told he was the seventh caller today… and Alexei’s body is not in the morgue.”
She stated that one other lawyer, who went to Salekhard’s Investigative Committee, was informed: “The cause of Alexei’s death has not yet been established, a new histological examination has to be carried out.”
Ms Yarmysh added: “The results will supposedly be available next week. It’s obvious the killers want to cover their tracks and are therefore not handing over Alexei’s body, hiding it even from his mother.”
And she went on: “We know for sure that it wasn’t just a death — it was a murder.”
Navalny, Putin’s main home critic in Russia, had bravely challenged the tyrant’s rule and his horrific conflict in Ukraine.
The dad’s supporters all the time feared that he can be assassinated whereas behind bars, and his household say he was “cheerful and healthy” within the days main up to his death.
Prison authorities stated Navalny fell unconscious and died after a stroll on the feared “Polar Wolf” jail, the place he was serving a three-decade sentence.
His mum Lyudmila Navalnaya, 69, stated paperwork she was handed detailed that her son had died at 2.17pm yesterday.
Alexei Navalny’s death is the worst factor that might occur to Russia.
Officials informed the grieving mom she couldn’t have a couple of moments to say goodbye to her son till an “examination” was accomplished.
Ms Navalnaya arrived early this morning on the penal colony in Kharp, 1,200 miles from Moscow, the place morgue bosses insisted the physique had not gone lacking — however nonetheless refused to disclose its location.
Dad-of-two Navalny was serving a 30-year jail time period on trumped-up extremism convictions and had been a thorn within the facet of tyrant Putin, 71, for greater than a decade.
Prison authorities stated he died on the feared “Polar Wolf” jail — the place winter temperatures plummeted to minus 19 levels — a day after a video-link courtroom listening to at which he smiled and joked with a decide.
Today, Russian media urged he had been dragged to a harsh “punishment cell” for the twenty seventh time simply two days earlier than he collapsed.
People in Russia have stated he might have doubtlessly been drugged or poisoned contained in the colony run by Colonel Vadim Kalinin, 51.
Navalny’s death — a month earlier than Russians go to the polls in sham presidential elections — dealt a extreme blow to the nation’s high organised opposition motion.
The Anti-Corruption Foundation, which Navalny based in 2011 and led till his imprisonment, stated: “Alexei Navalny was murdered. We demand his body be handed over to his family immediately.”
What is sudden death syndrome?
SUDDEN death syndrome is a standard killer internationally.
Also identified as sudden arrhythmic death syndrome, it happens when somebody has a ‘ventricular arrhythmia’ – additionally identified as a disturbance within the coronary heart’s rhythm.
The rhythm of our heartbeat is managed by pure electrical exercise in our coronary heart cells and if this electrical present is disturbed it can lead to a cardiac arrest.
There are a bunch of pretty uncommon illnesses known as ion channelopathies which can cause these doubtlessly deadly disturbances.
They can solely be detected when an individual is alive and never throughout a autopsy, research present.
Research has indicated that round 500 deaths a 12 months within the UK are as a result of of sudden death syndrome.
COMMON SYMPTONS
- Chest ache
- Severe Breathlessness
- Heart palpitations
- Prolonged Dizziness
- Fainting
- Blackouts
Although generally there can be no signs in any way therefore the chilling title.
Its director Ivan Zhdanov wrote on-line: “When Alexei’s lawyer and mother arrived at the colony this morning, they were told that the cause of Navalny’s death was sudden death syndrome.”
Meanwhile, state police launched a brutal crackdown on dozens of spontaneous memorial providers in cities throughout Russia.
At least 340 have been arrested whereas paying tribute to the opposition determine.
On Friday night time, greater than a thousand gathered exterior the Moscow HQ of Russia’s secretive FSB safety providers to place flowers on the Solovetsky Stone — a memorial to victims of political repression.
As some have been arrested and dragged away, the BBC’s Russian editor Steve Rosenberg stated from the scene: “For many here, just laying flowers is an act of courage.”
A notice caught to the monument stated: “Alexei Navalny’s death is the worst thing that could happen to Russia.”
Tribute marches have been shut down and floral tributes snatched by a bunch of hooded males.
Authorities stated any “mass rally” can be damaged up and warned individuals towards attending.
He’s died and that’s as a result of of the motion that Putin’s Russia took.
David Cameron
But a whole bunch nonetheless bravely turned out on the capital’s “Wall of Grief” — a memorial to these killed by Soviet brute Joseph Stalin — to defiantly lay roses in reminiscence of the pro-democracy campaigner.
Footage posted on Russian social media platform Telegram confirmed officers manhandling girls and youngsters. In St Petersburg — Russia’s second largest metropolis — mourners kneeled on the foot of one other political prisoner monument earlier than cops made greater than 90 arrests.
Meanwhile, protests and tributes unfold all over the world with solidarity marches in additional than 50 Western cities. A photograph of Navalny’s face was projected on to the entrance of the Russian Embassy in London. An indication learn: “Putin is a murderer.”
But Russian state TV spent simply 28 seconds on the death, regardless of it making headlines all over the world.
David Cameron scolded Vladimir Putin for his potential function in Navalny’s death saying “we should hold Putin accountable” as he blasted Russia’s “dreadful” regime.
He stated: “There must be penalties… look what Putin’s Russia did to him.
“He’s died and that’s as a result of of the motion that Putin’s Russia took.
“No one can look at this regime now and not recognise it for the truly dreadful nature that it has.”
He added that Navalny was “incredibly brave”.
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