Lyudmila Navalnaya, Navalny’s mother, said that investigators had threatened to let her son’s body “decompose” unless she agreed to their demand that he be buried in secret.
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Navalny’s mother told to agree to secret funeral or have her son buried at penal colony, spokesperson says
Russian authorities told the mother of late opposition figure Alexey Navalny he would be buried at the Arctic penal colony where he died unless she agreed within three hours to a secret funeral without a public farewell, his spokeswoman said Friday.
