A prominent rights group says over 400 people have been detained in Russia while paying tribute to opposition leader Alexey Navalny.
More than 400 people were detained in Russia while paying tribute to opposition leader Alexey Navalny, who died at a remote Arctic penal colony, a prominent rights group reported. The sudden death of Navalny, 47, was a crushing blow to many Russians, who had pinned their hopes for the future on President Vladimir Putin's fiercest foe. Navalny remained vocal in his unrelenting criticism of the Kremlin even after surviving a nerve agent poisoning and receiving multiple prison terms.
Navalny's team said Saturday that the politician was 'murdered' and accused the authorities of deliberately stalling the release of the body, with Navalny's mother and lawyers getting contradicting information from various institutions where they went in their quest to retrieve the body. 'They're driving us around in circles and covering their tracks,' Navalny's spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, said on Saturday.
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