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Moscow, court confirms jail for opponent Navalny
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February 25, 2021 Alexei Navalny was transferred from the Moscow prison where he was being held to an unknown location.
According to collaborators of the dissident, arrested last January, Navalny may have already been transferred to the penal colony where he will have to serve two years and eight months in prison, a sentence denounced by the dissident and by many NGOs as 'purely political'.
Navalny's lawyer, Vadim Kobzev, told the Interfax news agency that he wanted to meet his client but was told he had been transferred elsewhere.
"They didn't tell me where he was taken, maybe a prison camp, or maybe somewhere else," he added.
At the moment there has been no confirmation from the authorities.
"The fact that we don't know where he is and what is happening to him confirms the magnitude of the threat," tweeted Leonik Volkov, a Navalny collaborator in exile abroad.
After the criminal conviction, it was planned to send Navalny to a prison camp.
His lawyers calculate that the dissident should be released from jail in the summer of 2023, taking into account the time he has already spent in prison and under house arrest.
Navalny, 44, one of the main opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was arrested on January 17 on his return to Moscow from Germany, where he remained for five months to treat himself from nerve agent poisoning, for which he accuses the Kremlin .
However, the Russian authorities deny the accusations.
He was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for violating the terms of parole while he was in Germany.