A spokesman for Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has confirmed that his body has been handed over to his mother.

Kira Yarmish has said that it is not clear whether the Russian authorities will interfere in his funeral or not.In a post on X channel, he thanked all those who requested the handover of Mr. Navalny’s body.Mr. Navalny died about a week ago under suspicious circumstances in a prison in the North Pole.His allies have accused the Russian authorities of trying to threaten his mother to agree to a secret burial without mourning.Hours before the body of Alexei Navalny was handed over to his mother, Yulia Navalnaya, his wife attacked Vladimir Putin personally by publishing a video and demanded that he release her husband’s body.She accused the Russian president of holding her husband’s body “hostage”.Ms. Navalnaya and many Western leaders have accused Vladimir Putin of murdering Alexei Navalny. An accusation that the Kremlin denies.For several years, Alexei Navalny was the most prominent critic of Russian leader Vladimir Putin.He died on the 16th of February in a prison in northern Siberia​