What is known about Alexei Navalni, the opponent who was captured in Russia

Alexei Navalny47 years old, has a long political career in which he has emerged as leader of the opposition Russia and a strong critic of the Kremlin. He has participated in protests against the president Vladimir Putinand has been arrested, even convicted and imprisoned several times.

Since 2021, Navalny has been detained by Russian authorities and charged in several cases. First, He was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for violating the terms of his house arrestwho spent eleven months in Germany and underwent treatment for poisoning in Russia.

He was subsequently sentenced to serve a nine-year sentence in a maximum security prison fraud allegations against the Anti-Corruption Foundationin Moscow.

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And in August this year, He was sentenced to 19 years in prison on charges of extremism.. This meant that he had to be transferred to another colony under a ‘special regime’, that is, the category with the harshest detention conditions and usually reserved for those sentenced to life imprisonment and the most dangerous detainees.

Navalny was transferred on December 11 His lawyers say they don’t know where he is. In addition, his family members have had no contact with him since December 6.

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Alexei Navalny’s whereabouts

According to Kira Yarmyshexiled spokesman for the anti-corruption activist, a court informed the opponent’s lawyer that Navalny had “left the Vladimir region”, about 250 km from Moscow, where he was imprisoned.

“We do not know exactly to which destination,” he wrote on the social network X, specifying that this transfer would have taken place on December 11.

“Navalny’s arrival (to his new colony) will be announced within the framework of current legislation,” said a statement read out in court, according to Russian newspaper Kommersant.

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Transfers from one penal colony to another in Russia typically require several weeks of train travel, and detainees’ relatives have no news during this time. In the meantime, The prisoner’s lawyers have expressed concern about the lack of knowledge about his whereabouts and health status..

In response to the public complaints, Kremlin spokesman Dimitry Peskov pointed out that it is not the Russian government’s responsibility to monitor the prisoners’ situation.

“No, We have neither the intention nor the ability to know the fate of the prisoners. and the details of his stay in the corresponding penitentiaries,” he said. Peskov during his daily telephone press conference.

Both the European Union and Amnesty International expressed concern about the fate of Navalny, whose whereabouts neither journalists nor citizens asked Putin the day before during his first major news conference since the start of the war in Ukraine. (JO)