Navalny's widow fears arrests during funeral of Russian opposition leader who died in prison. Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opponent Alexei Navalny, expressed this Wednesday before the European Parliament her fear that the police could arrest participants in the funeral.
"I don't know if [the funeral] will be peaceful or if the police will arrest those who are present," she told the plenary session of the EU Parliament. Navalny died in a remote penal colony in the Russian Arctic, and according to his widow Russian authorities "abused his body"