Russia, the repression does not stop: Alexeï Navalny's lawyer arrested (then released). He and his mother had requested the return of the body

Lawyer Vasily Dubkov, who defended Alexei Navalny and who also accompanied his mother Lyudmila to the Arctic region in recent days to obtain the return of the dead dissident's body, was arrested today in Moscow, according to several reports. independent Russian newspapers, including which Novaya Gazeta Europe. The lawyer, as it turns out, would be accused of an administrative offense, that of “violation of public order”. After a few hours, Dubkov was released from the Moscow police station where he was detained, as he himself reported to the independent media outlet Verstka. The cloak of repression that oppresses Navalny, even in death, and his circuit was confirmed once again this morning by another complaint disclosed by spokesperson Kira Yarmish: the family and staff of the opponent who died in a penal colony are unable to secure space where funerals can take place. “We called most private and public funeral directors, commercial sites and funeral homes. Somewhere it is said that the room is occupied. Somewhere they refuse to mention Navalny's name. In one location, we were told directly that funeral agencies were prohibited from working with us,” the complaint alleges.

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