A total of a hundred people were arrested during several rallies in Russia in memory of the opponent Alexeï Navalny, who died in prison on Friday, the specialized NGO OVD-Info announced this Saturday, February 17.
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According to the count published on its site and updated this morning,
“more than 101 people were arrested in ten cities”
, including a majority in Saint Petersburg.
“Special diet” colony IK-3
The Kremlin's number one opponent died on Friday February 16 at the age of 47 in the "special regime" colony IK-3, located in the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous district, sixty kilometers beyond the Arctic Circle.
Incarcerated since January 2021, he was moved last December to this detention center, one of the harshest in the country, to serve his sentences which total nearly thirty years of imprisonment: 9 years in a fraud case, to which were then added 19 years for “extremism”.