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Moscow (dpa) - After being sentenced to a prison camp, the Kremlin opponent Alexej Navalny has apparently been moved to another prison.
Where to was initially unclear.
His lawyer Vadim Kobsew announced on the short message service Twitter that the opposition member had left the detention center in Moscow.
There was initially no official confirmation of the relocation.
Kobsew told the Interfax agency that when he wanted to meet the 44-year-old in pre-trial detention in Moscow, he was told that Navalny had left prison.
"I wasn't told where he was being taken, most likely to a prison camp, but possibly elsewhere."
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Navalny's overseas employee Leonid Volkov wrote on Twitter that nothing had been communicated to either his lawyers or his family.
"The fact that we now do not know where he is and what is with him confirms the extent of the threat."
Last Saturday, a court in the capital Moscow upheld Navalny’s detention in a prison camp.
Taking into account previous imprisonment periods and house arrest lasting several months, the opposition could be released after two years, six months and two weeks according to his lawyers' calculations - in the summer of 2023.
The court accused Navalny of a probation violation in previous criminal proceedings while recovering from a poison attack on him in Germany.
The judgment is criticized in the West as politically motivated.
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Navalny spent a good month in a detention center in the capital, Moscow.
He was arrested at an airport immediately after his return home.
The European Court of Human Rights had asked Russia to release the opposition member immediately.
Moscow rejected that.
With a view to the feared prison camps in Russia, human rights activists said they were now afraid for Navalny.
These detention centers are notorious for brute force, torture and death.
Reports of torture in a prison camp in Siberia recently made headlines.
According to the report, guards had fixed an injured prisoner with tape and allowed further violence by fellow prisoners.
The opposition leader collapsed on August 20 while on a domestic flight.
He was first taken to a hospital in Siberia.
Two days later he was flown to Berlin for treatment.
According to studies by several laboratories, he was poisoned with the warfare agent Novichok.
Russia, on the other hand, sees no evidence of poisoning and therefore no reason for an investigation.
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