Putin critic Alexei Navalny moved from jail to unknown location, lawyer says
- The 44-year-old has been moved from a prison in Russia’s Vladimir region and his whereabouts are currently unknown
- The Kremlin critic was arrested in January on his return from Germany following treatment for poisoning
He was initially held at the Kolchugino jail in the Vladimir region northeast of Moscow. The TASS news agency, citing a law enforcement source, reported at the time that Navalny was being held there for quarantine before being moved to the IK-2 penal colony, also in the Vladimir region.
Vadim Kobzev, one of Navalny’s lawyers, said he had visited his client on Thursday, but that another lawyer had tried to see him on Friday only to be told, eventually, that Navalny had been moved somewhere else.
“The prison said he wasn’t there and that’s it,” Kobzev said, adding that Navalny was in good health when he had visited him a day earlier.
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Citing laws on protecting personal information, a spokeswoman for the Federal Penitentiary Service said she could not disclose information on Navalny’s whereabouts.