Supporters of the Russian politician Alexei Navalny said that 19 days after he disappeared from the correctional colony in the Vladimir region, they were able to find him. According to Navalny's press secretary, Kira Yarmysh, Navalny is being held in a correctional colony (CC) in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District "Polar Wolf" in the Harp village.
Navalny was found in Russia
We found Oleksiy Navalny. It is located in CC-3 in the village of Harp, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District. A lawyer saw him today. Aleksey is fine, Yarmysh wrote.
According to Ivan Zhdanov, director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (created by Navalny), "It was clear to him from the beginning that the authorities wanted to isolate Alexei, especially before the elections." This correctional colony is "one of the northernmost and most remote colonies in general," "with a special regime in the permafrost zone". According to him, this colony did not have a system for delivering letters or telephones to prisoners.
What is known about Navalny's imprisonment
In August 2023, the Moscow City Court found Navalny guilty of creating an extremist community, calling for extremism and financing it.
The politician was sentenced to 19 years in a special regime colony.
In the Vladimir region, Navalny was serving a sentence on fraud charges.
He wrote that in September 2023, as "incorrigible", he was transferred to a single room of the cell type for a year — "the most severe of all possible punishments in colonies of all kinds."
