A Navalny spokesman said his lawyers or loved ones were not notified of the transfer of the opposition politician.
14.6. 16:41 • Updated June 14th. 16:56
Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalnyi has been transferred to an unknown location from a penitentiary where he has served his prison sentence, says Navalny spokesman Kira Jarmush With their Twitter account.
A lawyer who came to see Navalny was told, according to Jarmushi, that Navalnyi was not imprisoned in that penitentiary.
– We do not know where he is and to which penitentiary he has been transferred, Jarmush says.
According to Jarmushi, his lawyers or relatives have not been notified of Navalny’s transfer.
– As long as we don’t know where he is, he’s alone at the mercy of a system that has already tried to kill him. Our main task now is to find him as soon as possible, Jarmush said.
Also Navalny’s advisor Leonid Volkov has confirmed that the whereabouts of the opposition politician are currently unknown.
In the past, the Navalnyi have been held in the No. 2 penitentiary, located in Pokrov, 120 kilometers east of Moscow.
Last March, Navalnyi was sentenced to nine years in prison
The 46-year-old Navalnyi is Russia’s most famous president Vladimir Putin opponents of the regime. He was arrested early last year when he returned to Russia from Germany. He had been in Germany recovering and rehabilitating from the poisoning he has blamed on Putin and the Russian security service, the FSB.
In February, Navalnyi was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for parole. In March, he was sentenced to nine years in prison for embezzlement and contempt of court.
At the time, the judge announced that Navalnyi would be transferred to the highest security prison, where visits and access to correspondence would be reduced.
Spokesman Kira Jarmushi said Navalnyi had been transferred to the IK-6 Melekhovo Penitentiary, about 250 kilometers east of Moscow.
According to Navalny supporters, his sentences are political and related to open opposition to the Putin regime.
Since his arrest, Navalny’s networks have been dismantled and his organization banned as an “extremist organization”. Most of the Naval most assistants have been imprisoned or have fled abroad.
Navalnyi said two weeks ago that a new criminal charge has been brought against him for setting up an extremist organization and inciting hatred against the authorities. According to the news agency Reuters, the maximum penalty for these crimes is 15 years in prison in Russia.