The memory of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died last Friday in the Polar Wolf colony, was honored on Saturday at the Shahidlar Khotirasi (Memory of the Victims of Repression) alley in Tashkent.
After 14:00, about fifty people, most of them Russian citizens, laid flowers at the foot of the memorial to the victims of political repression.
National Guard and patrol officers were on duty around the site. While, people in civilian clothes could be seen.
Law enforcement officers did not prevent those gathered from laying flowers, but asked not to stand near the memorial. They were asked not to light candles.
Many, however, did not leave, but stood in groups of several people around the monument and at the stairs leading to it. In snatches of conversations one could hear people discussing Navalny.
On February 16, Russian authorities reported that the opposition leader Alexei Navalny had died in the Polar Wolf colony, where he was serving a 19-year sentence on the Terrorism and extremism charge. The Russian Penitentiary Service stated that Alexei Navalny lost consciousness during a walk; doctors were unable to revive him. The official cause of Navalny's death has not been announced.
