Alexei Navalny, a prominent opponent of the Russian government, confirmed, on Wednesday, that he was transferred to another prison, farther from the city of Moscow than before, and is known for ill-treatment of detainees, according to Agence France-Presse.
“Everyone is welcome to the farm (prison) with a strict regime. Yesterday (Tuesday) I was transferred to IK-6 + Melekhovo +, a prison located about 250 kilometers east of Moscow,” Navalny wrote on his Facebook page. Instagram.
Alexei Navalny used sarcasm to realize that his “space journey continues”, having moved “from ship to ship.” “I’m in quarantine, so I don’t have much to say,” he said.
Confirmation of the transfer of the Russian activist, 46, from prison, comes a day after his supporters warned of his disappearance from the prison where he was serving his sentence, and that his whereabouts are unknown.
IK-6 Melekhov prison is located near the city of Vladimir Stimulated many journalistic investigationsdue to the alleged ill-treatment of detainees.
In May, Navalny’s spokeswoman, Kira Irmich, warned that this prison was “one of the most horrific prisons in Russia,” asserting that “the detainees are tortured and killed there.”
Alexei Navalny, a politician who has been a vocal stand-up to Russian President Vladimir Putin, was arrested in January 2021 after returning from Germany, where he was recovering from a nerve agent poisoning he said was planned by the Kremlin.
At the time, he was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for violating his parole.
In March, the politician and activist was also sentenced to nine years in prison for fraud and contempt of court, charges that Navalny considered to be Political motives and an attempt to keep him in prison for as long as possible.
The judge ordered a critic of the Russian government to serve the new sentence in a maximum security prison, to which he will be transferred after losing his court appeal in early June.
Navalny was spending time in the Pokrov penal colony, 100 kilometers from Moscow, which is already considered one of the “hardest” colonies of Russia.
With the consolidation of Navalny’s rule, there was also a new wave of repression by the Kremlin against supporters of the Russian opposition, as well as against other opposition activists or independent journalists, in an attempt to stifle political opposition.
Some of Navalny’s main supporters have faced criminal charges and found themselves Forced to leave their country.
The political infrastructure of Navalny’s supporters, consisting of an anti-corruption institution and a network of regional offices, was also destroyed, after it was identified as an extremist organization.
The name of Navalny and his other accomplices now appears in the Russian registry of terrorists and extremists.
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