Alexei Navalny has been transferred to another prison and it is not known where he is

Alexei Navalny, critic of the Kremlin and main opponent of Vladimir Poutine, was transferred from a prison in the Russian region of Vladimir and his whereabouts are currently unknown, according to an article published Friday on behalf of Twitter of Navalny, citing his lawyers.

Navalny he was traveling to a penal colony to serve his prison sentence, a public commission said on February 28, weeks after returning to Russia after being poisoned. “Alexei’s lawyers have been in Kolchugino Remand Center 3 since the start of the working day. Under various pretexts, they were not allowed to visit Alexei. It was not until 2:00 p.m. that they were informed that Alexei was gone.“. That same tweet made it clear that he had not been informed of where he had been taken.

“Its location is once again unknown to us. The administration should inform the next of kin where he was transferred. But as practice has shown, this is not done“Said his defense lawyers. And they added: “The Federal Prison Service hides Alexei’s whereabouts from his family and lawyers. The last time we found him alone in the Kolchugino pre-trial detention center. Now, apparently, we are also welcome to research it on our own whenever possible.“.

Navalny’s conviction sparked massive protests across the country in late January, which were brutally suppressed by Putin’s security forces. Thousands of people were arrested at each of the protests.

When transferred, the European Union announced new sanctions against Russia for the conviction Navalny, who was poisoned in August 2020 in Siberia with the chemical agent Novichok, after which he was in a coma for two and a half weeks in a German clinic. The Washington Post also reported that the administration of Joe Biden in the United States, he is preparing to impose punitive measures on Russia for, among other things, the poisoning of the leader of the opposition.

Navalny accuse the russian president Putin to order the Federal Security Service (FSB, former KGB) to be assassinated. The Kremlin denies that this is the case.

Phrasing

Kremlin justice sentenced opposition leader Alexei Navalny to two and a half years in prison on February 2 by executing a 2014 suspended sentence that was deemed arbitrary by the European Court of Human Rights.

The judge in the case, Natalya Repnikova, ruled that the opposition leader, who returned to Russia in January after recovering from poisoning with the chemical agent Novichok, violated probation by failing not appearing before the competent authority last year.

Although the sentence is three and a half years, it was reduced from the ten months that the opponent spent under house arrest.

“The main point of this trial is not how it goes for me: putting me in jail is not difficult … The main reason is to intimidate a lot of people,” Navalny told the court. . He also argued that Putin will go down in history as “poisoner”.

“Everyone has become convinced that he (Putin) is just a three to four civil servant, who was appointed by chance. He never took part in a debate. Their only means of combat is murder. “, He said.

The judgment responds to the request of the Federal Penitentiary Service (SPF) to make real the suspended sentence pronounced in the event of fraud and money laundering of the company “Yves Rocher Vostok”.

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