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Tuesday 20 February 2024 14:56, United Kingdom
Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Alexei Navalny, has had her account suspended on social media platform X.
It is unclear why her account was suspended by the social network (formerly Twitter). Elon Musk.
There was a notice on the site saying, “Your account has been suspended.”
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Navalny, 47, was a prominent and vocal critic of the Russian president. Vladimir Putin He was serving a 19-year prison sentence. died in an arctic penal colony on friday.
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Within an hour, X had restored access to Navalnaya’s social media platforms.
“Our platform’s defense mechanisms against defacement and spam have incorrectly flagged @yulia_navalnaya for violating our rules,” X’s safety account later said in a post.
“Once we become aware of our error, we will unsuspend your account and update our defense.”
Today, Ms. Navalnaya called on the Kremlin on her X account to “return Alexei’s body and bury him with dignity.”
On Monday, she vowed to continue her husband’s fight against the Kremlin, accusing Mr. Putin of killing an opposition leader in a powerful nine-minute video.
In the video, published by Navalny’s official spokesperson Kira Yarmysh on YouTube and shared by X, she says authorities’ refusal to hand over Navalny’s body to his mother was part of a cover-up. insisted.
“They cowardly and despicably hid the body, refusing to give it to the mother and lying in misery while waiting for the traces of ‘poison’ to disappear,” Navalnaya said.
She suggested that her husband may have been killed with a Novichok-type nerve agent.
“By killing Alexei, President Putin killed half of me, half of my heart and half of my soul,” Navalnaya said in a video statement.
“But I still have the other half, and that tells me I have no right to give up.
“I will continue to work.” alexei navalny,” she said.
The Kremlin denied the allegations, calling them “groundless” and “arrogant.”
“These are completely baseless and irreverent accusations about the Russian head of state,” Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
“For five days I could not see Mr. Navalny. He refused to release it to me.” And they won’t even tell you where he is. ”
She added: “I am in contact with President Vladimir Putin.
“It’s up to you to solve this problem. Let me see my son one last time.
“We demand that Alexei’s body be released immediately so that he can be buried like a human being,” she said in a video posted on social media by Navalny’s team.
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Russian authorities said the cause of Navalny’s death was still unknown and refused to release his body for the next two weeks, pending a preliminary autopsy and “chemical analysis,” his team said.
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Meanwhile, Navalny’s younger brother RussiaAccording to state media, the wanted list of.
A new criminal case has been opened against Oleg Navalny and he is wanted in Russia.
In 2021, he was accused of inviting Russians to attend a rally for his brother and was given a one-year suspended sentence for violating coronavirus restrictions.
He was sentenced in February 2022 to one year in prison in absentia for violating the terms of his suspended sentence.
His whereabouts are unknown. According to court documents cited by the news agency, he traveled to Cyprus in 2021 but did not return to Russia.