Imprisoned Russian opponent Alexei Navalny has been transferred to a new "severe regime" penal colony.

While the lawyers for the Kremlin's pet peeve announced on Tuesday that they had learned of his transfer to another establishment without knowing which one, Alexeï Navalny confirmed on Wednesday June 15 on his Instagram account that he had been taken to another prison. 

"Hello everyone from the severe regime (prison). Yesterday (Tuesday) I was transferred to IK-6 'Melekhovo'", a facility about 250 km east of Moscow, he said. he writes.

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One of the "scariest prisons in Russia"

This prison, which is near the town of Vladimir Putin, has been the subject of numerous journalistic investigations on accusations of ill-treatment inflicted on inmates.

A spokeswoman for the opponent, Kira Iarmych, had declared in May that this prison was "one of the most frightening in Russia", claiming that "detainees are tortured and killed there".

1/14 This is a thread with facts about the high-security penal colony to which Putin ordered Alexei Navalny to be transferred.


According to reports from convicts, it's Penal Colony No. 6 (IK-6) in the town of Melekhovo, Vladimir Oblast.

— Кира Ярмыш (@Kira_Yarmysh) May 4, 2022

Alexei Navalny, 46, was previously imprisoned in the colony of Pokrov, 100 km from Moscow, already considered one of the toughest in Russia.

This prison move is due to the fact that a prison sentence pronounced in March against him in one of the multiple court cases against him came into force, his lawyer Olga Mikhailova explained on Tuesday.

Anti-corruption blogger and main opponent of Vladimir Putin, Alexei Navalny was arrested in January 2021 on his return from Berlin, where he had spent several months recovering after narrowly surviving poisoning for which he holds Russian President Vladimir Putin responsible.

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