Announcing the hack, Navalny's press secretary Kira Yarmysh said it was not clear whether authorities would interfere with funeral arrangements.
Lyudmila Navalnaya, the opposition leader's mother, said her wish was for him to be flown to Moscow, allowing for a public farewell ceremony, as is customary in Russia, and a funeral and burial at Troyekurovskoe cemetery, where many prominent Russians including the opposition are present. Numbers, they were buried.
Earlier, Navalnaya said that the Russian Investigative Committee pressured her to agree to hold a small private funeral with only family members present.
“The funeral has not come yet. We do not know whether the authorities will prevent his detention the way the family wants and the way Alexei deserves. We will announce the information when it becomes available,” Yarmysh said.
Navalny, 47, died suddenly in a Russian prison colony in the Arctic on February 16, prison officials said, removing the most prominent figure inside Russia willing to challenge the Kremlin's rule.
