His wife is out of the country, but his mother went to try to claim his body. I hadn't heard about the refusal - since I read BWMs note I pulled up a story - good for his mother, and there are cameras following her, putting more pressure on Putin.
This is CBS news in the US, hopefully easily opened from either side of the pond (whichever pond you're across).
Adding to the anguish felt by the late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny's family, his mother and his team have reportedly been denied access to his body and told by investigators that the official probe into his death is being extended, and it's unclear how long it will take.
"They are cowardly and meanly hiding his body, refusing to give it to his mother," Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of the fierce Kremlin critic said in a video statement four days after Russian prison authorities announced his death in prison — which they attributed to "sudden death syndrome."
Navalnaya, who lives in exile outside Russia, accused the Russian authorities of "lying miserably while waiting for the trace of another Putin's Novichok to disappear," referring to a poison allegedly used by Russian security services in at least one previous politically motivated assassination attempt.