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His whereabouts are unknown, his team says, prompting concern from the U.S.
Lawyers have made several attempts to get access to two penal colonies where Navalny, who has suffered serious health issues, was believed to be, spokesperson Kira Yarmysh said on X on Monday. They were informed that the 47-year-old was not at either the IK-6 or IK-7 penal colonies.
Lawyers of jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny say they have not been able to confirm his whereabouts for nearly a week, raising concern among his allies for his health and safety.
Navalny failed to appear at two recent court hearings by video feed due to a supposed "power outage" at the prison colony. The opposition leader's lawyers now say prison authorities claim that Navalny is no longer listed among the inmates there.
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Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has been removed from the penal colony where he had been imprisoned since the middle of last year and his current whereabouts are unknown, his allies said on Monday.
Navalny aides have been preparing for his expected transfer to a "special regime" colony, the harshest grade in Russia's prison system, after he was sentenced in August to an additional 19 years in prison on top of 11-1/2 years he was already serving.
30 yrs. in prison, just for running for President? And instigating marches, I guess that was the "crime"...
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From what I’ve heard he’s in a penal colony somewhere above the arctic circle. Reports say no mail is delivered. Sounds like a Stalin era gulag. Can’t imagine what kind of deprivations he has to endure. Putin is not shy about killing off his critics. Wonder why Navalny has survived?
From what I’ve heard he’s in a penal colony somewhere above the arctic circle. Reports say no mail is delivered. Sounds like a Stalin era gulag. Can’t imagine what kind of deprivations he has to endure. Putin is not shy about killing off his critics. Wonder why Navalny has survived?
I think they tried to poison him, but he survived. I don't think it was a good idea to return to Russia, after that. I hope he will survive.
From what I’ve heard he’s in a penal colony somewhere above the arctic circle. Reports say no mail is delivered. Sounds like a Stalin era gulag. Can’t imagine what kind of deprivations he has to endure. Putin is not shy about killing off his critics. Wonder why Navalny has survived?
Possibly because he's a man with a mission? He has something to live for. His current location is up on the Yamal Peninsula, which is the very far north. Def. an old gulag. They keep calling these places "penal colonies", but let's just call a spade a spade, shall we? These are the remaining gulag-system prisons. (Some were decommissioned and torn down, others were turned into historic sites/tourist attractions). P said, when it was suspected he was behind the poisoning of Navalny, that if he'd been behind it, he "would have got the job done". Decades in prison for exposing corruption, which got him declared an enemy of the state. That, and for fomenting democracy in the form of marches by his supporters.
You know, I've always said about Russia, "the more things change, the more they stay the same". In the 90's, people didn't know whether to believe me.
Over 20 days, he said he had been taken on a highly circuitous journey from Moscow to the penal colony in Kharp, a journey that should take around 40 hours by train. Describing conditions inside the camp, a former inmate gave an interview in 2018 to the daily newspaper Novie Izvestiya where he described how he was beaten “from all sides with a truncheon” on arrival.
Navalny ally Ivan Zhdanov called IK-3, which was founded in 1961 on the site of a former Soviet gulag forced labor camp, “one of the most northern and remote” prison colonies in Russia.
Navalny’s team and activists linked his transfer to the upcoming presidential elections in March in which President Vladimir Putin is widely expected to win re-election, describing it as an attempt to “isolate” the opposition politician.
Navalny was sent so far precisely in order to ensure this maximum possible physical isolation, so even taking a trip there would be a problem....
I'm aware of the official reason, if that's what you mean.
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