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Advocates Alexei Navalny On Monday they lost contact with the jailed Russian opposition leader, who is believed to be imprisoned in a penal colony about 150 miles east of Moscow and whose whereabouts are unknown.
Navalny was sentenced 19 years in prison In August, after he was found guilty of creating an extremist community, financing terrorist activities and other offences. He was already serving a sentence 11 and a half years He pleads not guilty in a maximum security facility on fraud and other charges.
Navalny’s supporters say his arrest and imprisonment are a politically motivated attempt to stifle his criticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Prosecutors have made several attempts to gain access to the two penal colonies where Navalny is a victim. Serious health problems, is believed to be, spokeswoman Kira Yarmish told X on Monday. They were told the 47-year-old was not in IK-6 or IK-7 penal colonies, Yarmish added.
“Friday and throughout today, neither IK-6 nor IK-7 responded to them,” Yarmysh posted, adding that Navalny had been missing for six days. Navalny was last imprisoned in the IK-6 penal colony east of Moscow.
Navalny posed one of the most serious threats during Putin’s rule that lasted more than two decades. arranged Street protests against the government and used his blog and social media to expose alleged corruption in the Kremlin and Russian business.
The protester was transported from Russia to Germany in 2020, after he was poisoned Novichok, a Soviet-era nerve agent. Navalny had to be airlifted from the Siberian city of Omsk to a hospital in Berlin in a coma.
A Joint investigation The Russian Security Service (FSB) was implicated in Navalny’s poisoning by CNN and the Bellinggate team.
Russia denies any involvement in the posing of Nalwani. Putin said in December 2020 that if Russian security services had wanted to kill Navalny, they would have “finished” the job.
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A screen showed Navalny arriving on September 26, 2023 to hear an appeal against his 19-year prison sentence.
Upon his return to Russia in January 2021, Navalny was promptly jailed on charges of violating the terms of his probation related to a fraud case brought against him in 2013, which he denies was politically motivated.
He campaigned from prison against Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and tried to mobilize public opposition to the war.
“We will campaign against the war. And against Putin. Exactly. A long, stubborn, exhausting, but fundamentally important campaign, where we will turn people against war,” Navalny said in a statement on his website.
When Navalny was sentenced in August to 19 years in a maximum-security penal colony, he said “the number of years doesn’t matter.”
“I am well aware that I am sitting on a life sentence like many other political prisoners. Life is measured by my lifetime or the lifetime of this regime,” he said in a statement.
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