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Navalny widow says Russia’s Putin torturing him even in death, demands body

The late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny and his wife Yulia [File: Tatyana Makeyeva/Reuters]

Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of opposition leader Alexey Navalny, has demanded that Russian authorities hand over his body for burial as she accused President Vladimir Putin of mocking Orthodox Christian values and “torturing” his corpse.

“Give us the body of my husband,” Navalnaya said in a video released on Saturday, adding that she wanted to give him a traditional Orthodox funeral.

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