GENEVA – The world is worried when Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny remains invisible until recently the chairman of the Prison Monitoring Committee confirmed. Navalney was transferred to the high-security prison IK-6, where the torture problem of prisoners in the Vladimir region is concerned.
Euronews reported on Wednesday (June 15) that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s allies and supporters had warned after finding the opposition leader, a rival to the powerful Russian President Vla. Dimir Putin was moved from the former prison to a new place without prior notice on Tuesday (14).
According to media reports, Sergei Yazhan, chairman of a prison monitoring commission, later said: Navalny was transferred to serve his sentence at a new high-security prison, IK-6 Prison, in the village of Melekhovo in the Vladimir region.
The Guardian British media pointed out The new prison is notorious for its torture and cruel treatment of inmates.
“Alexy Navalny has been released from Penal Colony No. 2 Prison. colony No. 2 in Pokrov (near Moscow)” and added that “His lawyers, who came to see him, were held at the entrance until 2pm and later claimed that no prisoners by that name were present.
Volkov continued, “We do not know where Alexei is at this time or to which prison he was sent.”
EuroNews reports that The same statement was shared by Navalney’s public affairs secretary Kira Yarmysh, who said on Twitter:
“Most definitely Neither the legal team nor Navalny’s relatives were notified in advance of his move,” she said. “There are rumors that he is going to be transferred to the IK-6 Melekhovo high-security prison, but there is no way of knowing when he will actually be sent there.”
The Guardian pointed out that Transferring prisoners to other prisons in Russia sometimes takes days and is full of secrecy.
EuroNews said Volkov, who fled Russia in the face of criminal prosecution, once said: Russian officials want the opposition leader to remain in prison until “Russian President Vladimir Putin or Navalny himself will die.”
Last week, Navalny lost an appeal against a Russian court ruling that ruled him as an extreme mister and a terrorist.