Dissident leader Alexei Navalny has been transferred to a prison in Russia’s northern Arctic region. After days of uncertainty His whereabouts have been revealed by his spokesperson after his team lost contact with him for more than two weeks.
Navalny was finally located in the IK-3 penal center in Jarp, in the Yamal-Nenets region, about 1,900 kilometers northeast of Moscowreported its spokesperson, Kira Yarmysh.
It is one of the northernmost prisons, one of the most remote prisons in the country. The conditions there are harsh, with a special regime, in a frozen area with permafrost, the perennial ice. It is very difficult to get to that region and the mail delivery systems used by prisoners in other centers do not exist.
Navalny’s lawyer was able to see him a few hours ago. Russia’s most famous prisoner was awaiting a transfer to a “special regime” centerthe most severe degree in the Russian prison system.
These days without clues for Navalny have raised alarm about his state of health. His collaborators sent 618 requests for information about Navalny’s location, which since shortly after his arrest in 2021 was in a prison 235 kilometers east of Moscowin the Vladimir region.