Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was abruptly transferred from the prison where he is serving an 11-and-a-half-year sentence to an undisclosed location. Nalvany’s top aide reported on the app’s detention change telegram this Tuesday (14th). The transfer comes nearly two years after the militant was poisoned with what the West said was a “nerve chemical.”
The opposition representative classifies the Russia of the president Vladimir Putin as a dystopian state run by thieves and criminals, where wrong is considered right and judges are de facto representatives of a doomed elite.
Last month, during a hearing in a Russian court, Navalny criticized Putin, calling the Kremlin chief a madman who started a “stupid war” that was massacring innocent people in Ukraine and Russia.
When his lawyer arrived at Correctional Facility No. 2, a prison camp in Pokrov, 119 kilometers east of Moscow, he received the information: “There is no such prisoner here,” recounted aide Leonid Volkov.
“Where Alexei is now and what facility he is being taken to, we do not know,” Volkov said in a statement.
A spokeswoman for Navalny said there was speculation he was being taken to the high-security IK-6 Melekhovo prison, about 250 kilometers east of Moscow.
Russia’s prison service could not be reached for immediate comment.
“The problem with his transfer to another prison is not just that the high-security prison is much scarier: it’s more that we don’t know where Alexei is,” said her spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh.
“He is face to face with the system that has already tried to kill him.”
Source: CNN Brasil
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