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MOSCOW: The mother of Alexei Navalny urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to \u201cimmediately\u201d release the body of her son, in her first comments since his death<\/a> in an Arctic prison.<\/p>\n Putin\u2019s main political opponent died in his penal colony on Friday, Russian authorities said. His team says the 47-year-old was murdered.<\/p>\n His widow, Yulia Navalnaya, who has vowed to continue her husband\u2019s work, echoed his mother\u2019s call and repeated accusations<\/a> against Putin over Navalny\u2019s death.<\/p>\n Navalny\u2019s mother, Lyudmila Navalnaya, travelled to the remote IK-3 penal colony on Saturday, the morning after his death was announced, and has since been barred from seeing his body.<\/p>\n \u201cI appeal to you, Vladimir Putin. The solution to the issue depends only on you,\u201d she said, dressed all in black, in a video published by his team.<\/p>\n \u201cLet me finally see my son. I demand that Alexei\u2019s body be released immediately so that I can bury him in a humane way.\u201d Behind her was the barbed wire of the IK-3 prison above the Arctic Circle \u2014 one of Russia\u2019s harshest jails and the place where Navalny spent his last weeks.<\/p>\n \u201cFor the fifth day, I cannot see him. They don\u2019t give me his body and I am not even told where he is,\u201d Lyudmila Navalnaya said.<\/p>\n