Alexey Navalny’s team confirms his death, calls for body to be returned

The death of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has been confirmed by his team, with his spokesperson saying the Kremlin critic “was murdered”.

Navalny died at 2:17pm (09:17 GMT) on February 16, according to the notice given to his mother, Kira Yarmysh wrote on X on Saturday in the first confirmation from his allies.

Yarmysh cited an employee of the “Polar Wolf” Arctic penal colony where the 47-year-old was serving a 19-year sentence as saying his body was picked up by investigators from Russia’s Investigative Committee and was now in the town of Salekhard.

“We demand that Alexey Navalny’s body be handed over to his family immediately,” she said.

(Aljazeera)