“Alexei Navalny” Putin’s main enemy Disappeared from the prison where he was being held. and lost contact for 1 week
Alexei Navalny, the 43-year-old Russian opposition leader and a key foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is currently imprisoned on various charges, has been out of contact for nearly a week and even his lawyers have been unable to contact him. can
Navalny has been convicted of extremism and other charges and jailed for more than 30 years. He says the charges against him were politically motivated. And he believes He will not be released while Putin is alive.
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Kira Yarmich, Navalny’s aide, said: “Unfortunately we still don’t know anything about his status… Today is the sixth day the lawyer has not seen Alexei.”
Yesterday (Dec. 11), Navalny’s supporters revealed that Navalny did not appear on another video conference call for the court hearing. Prison officials claimed that the power outage was to blame.
But later that day Navalny’s lawyer has been informed that Navalny is no longer on the prison list at IK-6, where he is held. Located in the Vladimir region. near Moscow
“We think he may have been transferred. And that is why lawyers are trying to get into other prisons in the Vladimir region, such as IK-7, which is a special prison ship,” Yarmich said. But she said Navalny has not yet been identified as a prisoner at IK- 7 and “We still don’t know where he is.”
She added: “We don’t know where he is right now. He could be in any special prison. And there are about 30 of them in Russia. All over Russia, we will try to go to every prison and find him.”
The Russian government’s special prisons have some of the worst conditions in the country. And it will limit Navalny’s opportunities to meet visitors. Including writing or receiving letters.
Navalny’s disappearance comes shortly before Putin announced his candidacy in next year’s presidential elections. This is his fifth term as president. Putin is the longest serving Russian leader since Stalin. And he will break that record if he wins a sixth term and rules Russia until 2036.
As for Putin’s election Navalny supporters have also protested. Causing it to be predicted that Navalny disappeared during Putin’s election campaign. Possibly to silence him and not give him the opportunity to help support opposition to Putin.
before he disappeared Navalny’s confidant said: He suffered health problems while in prison. He lost consciousness last week and had to have an intravenous injection. This may be due to malnutrition.
Yarmish said “Due to the inhumane conditions of detention There is no ventilation. There was no warm water in the cell. and he was not properly fed. It might cause him to faint from hunger… However, the lawyer met with Alexei after that. And he was quite fine. But then he disappeared.”
The United States has also responded to Navalny’s disappearance, with National Security Council spokesman John Kirby saying: “We are deeply concerned by reports that he has now been missing for over a year. It has been a week and neither his agent nor his family know where he is.”
He added: “We will work with our embassy in Moscow to see if we can find anything.”
Compiled from Al Jazeera / The Guardian
Photo by Natalia KOLESNIKOVA / AFP
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2023-12-12 10:43:00
