Navalny’s team announced on Monday that the opposition activist, who was poisoned with Novichok in 2020 and imprisoned in Russia in 2021 after successful treatment in Germany, is no longer in the prison colony where he was being held, and they have not received information about his whereabouts. it’s been transferred.
Navalny’s spokesman Count Garmis He said the politician did not attend the court session held via video link on Tuesday.
In August, Navalny was sentenced to an additional 19 years in prison on trumped-up charges on top of the 11-and-a-half years he already had, so it was expected that he would be transferred to the tougher prison colony located 235 kilometers from Moscow. .
Due to the long distances in Russia, transporting prisoners can take days, and even then, relatives cannot obtain information about the prisoner’s whereabouts. It is not known whether Navalny has been transferred currently.
Matthew MillerA US State Department spokesman expressed deep concern about this news, and said that they had made clear to the Russian government that they were responsible for what happened to the opposition politician.
John Kirby The US National Security spokesman called for Navalny’s immediate release, adding that Navalny should never have been imprisoned.
Dmitry Peshkov Kremlin spokesman on Tuesday He described it as unacceptableThat the United States, so to speak, interfered in Russian internal affairs with the statements it made regarding Navalny.
He said,
The Kremlin also does not know Navalny’s current whereabouts.
Joseph BurrellOn Tuesday, the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy described it as very worrying that nothing has been known for seven days about Navalny’s whereabouts and demanded his immediate release.
(Source: Reuters, The Guardian)
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