Jailed Russian opposition chief Alexei Navalny has been taken from his penal colony to an undisclosed location, certainly one of his shut aides has stated.
Kira Yarmysh stated on Tuesday that Navalny was not there when a lawyer visited him on the IK-2 colony positioned round 60 miles east of Moscow, within the Vladimir area.
The lawyer was instructed "there isn't a such convict," tweeted Yarmysh, who added: "We do not know the place Aleksey is now and to what colony he's being taken."
"In fact, neither Alexei's attorneys nor his relations have been knowledgeable about his switch prematurely", Yarmysh stated, including that there had been rumors that he can be transferred to the IK-6 penal colony in Melekhovo, "however it's not possible to know when (and if) he'll truly arrive there."
"The issue along with his switch to a different colony isn't solely that the high-security colony is way scarier," she wrote.
"So long as we do not know the place Alexei is, he stays one-on-one with the system that has already tried to kill him, so our foremost activity now's to find him as quickly as potential."
Navalny's lawyer Olga Mikhailova later stated that the opposition determine had been transferred "to a strict regime colony, however we weren't instructed which one," Tass reported.
Newsweek has contacted Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) for remark.
Final month, Navalny expressed issues that he can be despatched to the Melekhovo jail, infamous for the torture of its inmates.
"My new sentence has not but entered into pressure, however I've heard rumors that I will be transferred to the high-security colony in Melekhovo, the place convicts get their fingernails pulled out," he tweeted on Could 4.
In February 2021, Navalny, Russia's highest-profile opposition chief and a thorn within the facet of President Vladimir Putin, was jailed for 2 and a half years for parole violations.
He had simply returned from Germany, the place he had been recovering from a poisoning by the Novichok nerve agent blamed on the Kremlin, which denies accountability.
On March 24, Navalny was given one other 9 years in jail for fraud and contempt of court docket on costs he says are politically motivated. Navalny's anti-corruption basis (FBK) has been largely dismantled after the authorities labeled it an "extremist" group. Final week, Navalny had his attraction rejected by a Russian court docket over a call to label him an extremist and a terrorist.
For the reason that begin of the warfare in Ukraine, the Kremlin has stepped up its crackdown on dissent. Navalny has spoken out in opposition to the warfare in a court docket look, attacking Putin throughout a court docket look and calling the invasion "constructed solely on lies."
Navalny ally Ivan Zhdanov instructed Reuters this month that Navalny will stay in jail so long as Putin is in energy.
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