- Alexei Navalny has been moved to the IK-3 penal colony, his spokesperson stated on X.
- Earlier this month, Navalny’s legal professionals stated they’d misplaced contact with him.
- Navalny is an outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin.
After a virtually three-week disappearance, incarcerated Russian opposition chief Alexei Navalny has reappeared at a 3rd penal colony. Earlier this month, his legal professionals stated that his whereabouts have been unknown and that authorities wouldn’t say if he had been transported elsewhere.
Navalny is now located on the IK-3 jail within the city of Kharp, his spokesperson Kira Yarmysh stated on X, previously Twitter. The settlement is positioned above the Arctic Circle, and over 1,000 miles northeast of Moscow.
Yarmysh stated his lawyer visited him on Monday and that he’s “doing effectively.”
We now have discovered Alexey @navalny. He’s now in IK-3 within the settlement of Kharp within the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District. His lawyer visited him at present. Alexey is doing effectively.
— Кира Ярмыш (@Kira_Yarmysh) December 25, 2023
Navalny — a outstanding critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin — was finishing up a decades-long sentence at a penal colony round 120 miles east of Moscow, however his legal professionals misplaced contact with him on December sixth.
The disappearance was made extra alarming by an sickness Navalny was going through on the time, requiring him to be positioned on an IV drip.
Since August, Navalny has been serving a 19-year jail sentence on costs of extremism, including to a earlier 9-year conviction.
He has been jailed since 2021, an incarceration his supporters argue is politically motivated. Within the years main as much as his arrest, he garnered a repute for calling out corruption and heading huge anti-government protests in Russia.
