Navalny’s lawyer released after being briefly detained in Moscow
A lawyer for the late Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has been released after being arrested in Moscow.
Vasily Dubkov was detained earlier yesterday but has since told the independent Russian news outlet Verstka that he had been let go.
He did not give a reason for his arrest, but said it was an obstruction of his activity as a lawyer.
Mr Dubkov helped Mr Navalny’s mother successfully put pressure on Russian authorities to release her son’s body last week.
Mr Navalny died suddenly in an Arctic penal colony on 16 February.
Earlier today, his spokeswoman said his team had so far been unable to find any funeral hall or other venue where people could come to pay their respects to him.
She said one venue had told them that “funeral agencies were prohibited from working with us”.
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