He Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalnyserving almost 30 years in prison, is in unknown place within a week, so his staff believes that Kremlin wants shut it up transferring him to another prison far from Moscow.

“Day seven. “We don’t know what’s happening to Navalny.”– the opposition team wrote today in a short message on their channel. Telegram.

Prison services maintain strict silence, so Navalny’s coreligionists inside and outside Russia have launched a campaign to find out the fate of a political prisoner the most famous in this country.

Where is Navalny?

On Monday, collaborators sounded the alarm that this He was no longer in prison number 6. from the Vladimir region, where he served his sentence with June 2022.

Navalny, sentenced to prison 9 years in prison various economic crimes and last August 19 years for extremismstill pending terrorism case. Therefore, it was assumed that the enemy would remain in Vladimir, less than 200 kilometers from Moscow, until the new trial.

At the moment it is unknown whether the opposition leader will be transferred to prison in the city. european part of Russia or to another penitentiary institution in Siberia.

Since Russian penitentiary institutions are scattered throughout the country, prisoners have to sometimes travel thousands of kilometers before landing what your new home will be like.

During this multi-week journey, known as “escaping” (stage-by-stage movement), prisoners completely isolatedlimbo, which Amnesty International described as “Illegal imprisonment”.

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The Kremlin doesn’t know, doesn’t respond

Meanwhile, the Kremlin said today without knowing the enemy’s locationwhose name and surname are never mentioned by high-ranking officials.“No, we have neither the intention nor the ability to know the fate of the prisoners.” and details of his stay in the relevant penitentiary institutions,” presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at a daily telephone press conference.

In turn, he crossed out US intervention ‘unacceptable’ in the situation with 47-year-old Navalny, who condemned the illegal enrichment of high-ranking Russian officials.

“Here we are talking about a prisoner who was found guilty by law and he is serving the sentence imposed on him. We believe any interference is unacceptable and impossible“Whoever it is, including the United States,” he said.

US State Department Representative Matthew Millerhe announced that will express its concerns to Moscow for Navalny’s state.

EU ‘very concerned’

He High Representative of the European Union (EU) Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrellsaid on Tuesday that he “very concerned” about the disappearance leader of the Russian opposition and He demanded his “immediate release”.

“The news that Navalny disappeared seven days ago is very disturbing. Russian political leaders are responsible for your safety and health in prison, so they will have to be held accountable“Borrell indicated on social networks. X.

The head of public diplomacy repeated the EU’s call for the “immediate and unconditional release of his imprisonment for political reasons“

Silence the opposition

Their allies accuse the Kremlin of I want to silence him immediately after the president, Vladimir Putinannounced his intention last Friday stand for re-election.

In addition, Putin intends to offer his first major annual press conference since the beginning of the war in Ukraine.

On December 7, Navalny asked to be released from prison vote for any candidate except the head of the Kremlin in the elections on March 17, 2024.

“On this day we urge everyone to go to the polls and vote against Vladimir Putin. […] “He wrote in his last message on his channel. Telegramin which he assured that The vote will be a referendum “for approval of war” Kremlin in Ukraine.

Navalny also announced the launch of a website (neputin.org) to gather support Campaign “Russia without Putin”. One day after launch the site was blocked.

“The future does not belong to cowards. The future belongs to those who, having overcome fear, fight and believe in victory. We call to action“he proclaimed.

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Siberia, likely destination

The experience of what has happened to other prominent Russian political prisoners over the past 20 years suggests that Navalny has many options. end up in a Siberian prison.

Once the richest man in this country, Mikhail Khodorkovskydefied Putin and was sentenced to ten years in prison, was sent to prison in 2005 prison in Chitaclose to the border with Mongolia and more than six thousand kilometers from Moscow.

In 2015, Ukrainian Oleg Sentsov was sentenced to 20 years in prison for alleged terrorist activities in the annexed territory. Crimean peninsula and transferred first to Siberian region of Yakutia and then to a fine in the Arctic Circle.

More recently the city Khabarovsk in the Russian Far East was the destination of a journalist and oppositionist Vladimir Kara-Murzasentenced to 25 years in prison for treason and other crimes.

The exception was one of Navalny’s main allies. Ilya Yashinwho was transferred to the city area. Smolenskless than 400 kilometers from the capital, receiving 8.5 years in prison.

(according to information from EFE)