Jailed Russian opposition leader ‘doing well’, according to aides, nearly three weeks after going missing
The jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been located in a remote prison colony above the Arctic Circle after going missing for nearly three weeks, his aides have said.
Navalny was tracked down to the IK-3 penal colony in Kharp in the Yamal-Nenets region, about 1,200 miles north-east of Moscow, his spokesperson Kira Yarmysh said on Monday. “We have found Alexei Navalny,” she wrote on Twitter/X.
Navalny, who has been sentenced to nearly three decades in jail after building a nationwide political opposition to Vladimir Putin, disappeared from a prison in the Vladimir region near Moscow on 6 December, raising fears among his supporters about his health. A UN official described it as a “forced disappearance”.
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The jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been located in a remote prison colony above the Arctic Circle after going missing for nearly three weeks, his aides have said.
Navalny was tracked down to the IK-3 penal colony in Kharp in the Yamal-Nenets region, about 1,200 miles north-east of Moscow, his spokesperson Kira Yarmysh said on Monday.
Navalny’s aides had been preparing for his expected transfer to a “special regime” colony, the harshest grade in Russia’s prison system.
The Kharp high-security prison colony holding Navalny was first established under Stalin in the Soviet Union as part of the Gulag network.
Navalny’s allies previously linked the timing of his disappearance to President Putin’s announcement to seek re-election in Russia’s 2024 presidential race.
Navalny’s supporters have launched an anti-Putin campaign including billboards in Moscow, St Petersburg and Novosibirsk, with a QR-code linking to a website that calls for Putin critics to use non-violent “partisan” tactics to express their dissent.
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