The body of Alexei Navalny is in the morgue of the Salekhard district clinical hospital.
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Novaya Gazeta Europe writes about this with reference to a source.
According to the publication’s interlocutor, the politician’s body was taken to the hospital on the evening of February 16. As of February 17, no autopsy had been performed. Journalists suggest that specialists from Moscow are waiting at the hospital. The publication recalls that only two flights usually arrive in Salekhard from Moscow, but a local taxi driver told reporters that on the evening of February 17, two unscheduled flights landed at Salekhard airport.
Small planes. The first jet landed at about six in the evening, it was met by cars of the Investigative Committee. And the second one arrived an hour and a half later. I myself did not personally see who arrived on it, but my colleagues said that eight people got off the plane and went to the airport,” said the publication’s interlocutor. In turn, journalists suggest that experts could have arrived on the second special flight to conduct autopsy…
At the same time, an employee of the Salekhard ambulance station told the publication that bruises were found on Navalny’s body.
Such injuries, as those who saw them described them, appear from convulsions. The person convulses, they try to restrain him, and bruises appear. They also said that he also had a bruise on his chest. But arising in connection with indirect cardiac massage. That is, they tried to resuscitate him, and he died, most likely, from cardiac arrest. But why this stop happened, no one is saying anything yet,” the interlocutor said.
On February 17, associates of Alexei Navalny reported that the Russian authorities did not hand over the body of the politician to his mother. At the same time, it remained unclear where Navalny’s body was. As the politician’s press secretary Kira Yarmysh wrote, the colony claimed that the body was in the Salekhard morgue, but in the mother’s morgue the politician stated that they did not have the body.
Yarmysh later reported that the Investigative Committee refused to release the body to relatives until the verification was completed. According to the coordinator for criminal cases of the human rights project “OVD-Info” Eva Levenberg, the verification can take up to 30 days. At the same time, OVD-Info clarified that the body may not be returned for longer.
In addition to the inspection, there is an investigation of the case, and within its framework, the decision to release the body is made only by the body conducting the inspection.
Earlier, a representative of the colony where Navalny was serving his term told his mother that the politician died from “sudden death syndrome.” There is a version that in the colony they could talk about sudden cardiac death.
Meanwhile, more than 12 thousand people sent an appeal to the Investigative Committee with a demand to hand over the body of Alexei Navalny to his relatives, reports the human rights project OVD-Info. The project called for sending an appeal to the Investigative Committee on the evening of February 17.
Only solidarity will help achieve justice for Alexei Navalny and his family now. Yesterday, OVD-Info launched a collection of appeals to the Investigative Committee: together with you, we are seeking the extradition of Alexei’s body. In less than 24 hours, more than 12 thousand people sent an appeal through the Woodpecker service,” the project writes.
Human rights activists also emphasized that the release of the body should take place as quickly as possible.
Navalny, at least after death, should be with his relatives. The investigation into the circumstances of his murder should begin as soon as possible, human rights activists added.
Source: Racurs
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