Alexei Navalny’s mother says she is resisting pressure to agree to secret burial

Flowers next to a portrait of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny (AP)

The mother of Russia’s top opposition leader Alexei Navalny said she has seen her son’s body and that she is resisting strong pressure by authorities to agree to a secret burial outside the public eye.

Speaking in a video statement from the Arctic city of Salekhard, Lyudmila Navalnaya said investigators have allowed her to see her son’s body in the city morgue.