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After worrying about his whereabouts: Alexej Navalny reports from a new prison camp

2022-06-15T16:28:10.494Z


A sign of life from Alexei Navalny: The convicted Kremlin critic has published a message about his new prison, where prison conditions are said to be tougher. Navalny's spokeswoman fears for his life.


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Navalny in his former prison near Moscow (excerpt from video)

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According to Alexei Navalny, he was transferred to penal colony 6 in Melekhovo near the city of Kovrov, where prison conditions were harsher.

He is currently in quarantine there, the 46-year-old imprisoned Kremlin critic reported on Instagram.

Relatives, employees, friends and supporters had previously worried about the whereabouts of Vladimir Putin's fiercest opponent.

Navalny's spokeswoman Kira Jarmysch said on Tuesday that his life was in danger.

The lawyer for the anti-corruption fighter was not given any information in the prison camp in Pokrov about where the opposition leader had been transferred.

Now the lawyer has also seen Navalny in the penal camp, said Jarmysch.

The Melechowo camp is around 150 kilometers away from the Pokrov penal colony.

That's about 260 kilometers north-east of the Russian capital Moscow.

Jarmysch said that Putin's power apparatus is doing everything it can to make it difficult for the lawyers and family to contact Navalny.

In May, a court upheld Navalny's nine-year prison sentence for alleged fraud.

The transfer to a penal camp with tougher prison rules became legally binding.

In Russian prisons for serious criminals, inmates are less likely to meet relatives, receive parcels and letters, or go outside into the fresh air.

At the end of May, Navalny himself informed about a new indictment by the Russian judiciary.

This time it's about extremism and a possible sentence of another 15 years in prison.

His anti-corruption foundation had previously been classified as extremist in Russia.

He has made many enemies with his revelations about corruption and abuse of power in the Russian state apparatus.

So far, every indictment against Putin's most well-known opponent has ended in a guilty verdict.

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Source: spiegel

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