Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny's team confirms his death
Alexei Navalny's spokesperson confirmed on Saturday that the Russian opposition leader had died at a remote Arctic penal colony and said he was «murdered», but it is unclear where his body is.
An official note handed to Navalny's mother stated that he died at 2:17 pm local time on Friday, Kira Yarmysh said. She added that an employee of the prison colony said that Navalny's body was taken to the nearby city of Salekhard as part of a probe into his death.
When a lawyer and Navalny's mother visited the morgue in Salekhard, it was closed, Navalny's team said, writing on their Telegram channel. The lawyer called the morgue and was told that Navalny's body was not there, his team said. Another of Navalny's lawyers went to Salekhard's Investigative Committee and was told that the cause of Navalny's death has not yet been established and that new investigations are being done with the results to be released next week, Yarmysh said.
«It's obvious that they are lying and doing everything they can to avoid handing over the body,» she wrote on X, formerly Twitter, adding that his team «demand that Alexei Navalny's body be handed over to his family immediately.»
Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service reported that Navalny felt sick after a walk and became unconscious at the penal colony in the town of Kharp, in the Yamalo-Nenets region about 1,900 kilometers (1,200 miles) northeast of Moscow. An ambulance arrived, but he couldn't be revived. The cause of death is
