 Putin's government also arrested Navalny's body, mother of late politician is being pressured. The mother of Russia's late opposition leader Alexei Navalny said that 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. Lyudmila Navalnya said investigators allowed her to see her son's body in the city morgue. She said she reaffirmed the demand to give Navalny's body to her and protested what she described as authorities, trying to force her to agree to a secret burial. They are blackmailing me. They are setting conditions where, when and how my son should be buried. She said in a video statement from the Arctic city of Salikhard. They want to do it secretly without a mourning ceremony. Navalny's spokesman Yamish said on X that his mother was also shown a medical certificate stating that the 47-year-old politician died of natural causes. Yamish didn't specify what those were. Navalny's mother has filed a lawsuit at a court in Salikhard, contesting officials' refusal to release her son's body. A closed door hearing has been scheduled for March the 4th. She appealed to Putin to release her son's remains so that she could bury him with dignity. Navalnya said that she had spent nearly 24 hours in the Salikhard office of the Investigative Committee where officials told her that they have determined the politician's cause of death and have the paperwork ready, but she has to agree to a secret funeral. They want to take me to the outskirts of the cemetery to a fresh grave and say, here lies your son. I don't agree to this. I want you to, to whom Alexei is dear, for whom his death was a personal tragedy, to have the opportunity to say goodbye to him, she said. Navalnya accused the authorities of threatening her. Looking into my eyes, they say that if I do not agree to a secret funeral, they will do something with my son's body. Investigator Voropeev openly told me, time is not on your side, the corpse is decomposing. She said, reiterating her demand to release her son's body immediately.