Alexei Navalny’s mother pressured into secret funeral for son

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Alexei Navalny's mother confirms she has been given an ultimatum to agree to a secret funeral for her son or see him buried in the Siberian prison where he died.

Lyudmila Navalnaya says investigators allowed her to see her son’s body in the morgue, where she was pressured to agree to a secret burial for her son.

Ms Navalnaya says she was only given three hours to make the decision.

Alexei Navalny was serving 19 years in an Arctic Circle jail for extremism charges when he suddenly died last week.

Russian authorities maintain Mr Navalny died of natural causes while his widow claims he was killed.

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