Alexei Navalny's widow mentioned Russian President Vladimir Putin had personally ordered that his arch-critic's physique not be handed over to his household after his loss of life in an Arctic jail 9 days in the past.
Navalny's mom has mentioned authorities within the Arctic metropolis of Salekhard are threatening to bury him on jail grounds if she doesn’t conform to a “secret” funeral.
“You tortured him alive, now you torture him whereas he’s lifeless,” Yulia Navalnaya, who has vowed to proceed her husband's work, mentioned in a brand new video.
“I absolutely perceive that this was not put collectively by a researcher in Salekhard. Putin directs all of it,” she mentioned.
“It’s Putin saying: 'put stress on the mom, break her, inform her that her son's physique is rotting,'” she mentioned.
She mentioned Navalny's mom, who traveled to the distant jail colony the place he died, is being “tormented” by authorities.
“This is similar Putin who likes to indicate that he’s a practising Christian,” she mentioned.
Putin has portrayed himself as a religious Orthodox Christian for many years and has targeted lately on selling what he calls “conventional values.”
“We at all times knew that Putin's religion is fake, however now we will see it like by no means earlier than,” Navalnaya mentioned.
She additionally criticized Putin's choice to launch the Ukraine marketing campaign two years in the past.
“You’ll have to reply for all of this. And for this (Navalny's loss of life) and for the battle you unleashed two years in the past, whereas additionally hiding behind Christian values.
'You're simply killing. You might be simply killing sleeping individuals at night time with church-blessed missiles,” she mentioned.
