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Alexey Navalny has been moved from a medium-security prison in Pokrov to a high-security penal colony in the town of Melekhovo in Russia's Vladimir region.

The video was filmed in the IK-3 hospital, where he was transferred from IK-6). In one that was published in 2016, an inmate named Artyom Gribanov says through tears that people in masks formed him to retract a testimony against prison employees by forcing him onto a mattress, pulling down his pants, and starting to “poke” him in the anus with a baton. In an interview with Navalny associate Lyubov Sobol, Gulagu.net founder Vladimir Osechkin referred to IK-6 as a “torture chamber.” According to numerous testimonies, inmates themselves are involved in the torture, using beatings, threats, and sexual violence to extract confessions from others. On June 15, Navalny said in a Telegram post that he was being transferred to Melekhovo’s IK-6 prison, writing, “Hello from a high security zone!” Kommersant reported that a criminal case was opened after the video came to light, but the outcome is unknown. The heads of the Federal Penitentiary Service’s regional office denied the reports, telling journalists that the video was filmed elsewhere.

Britain "wholeheartedly" supports Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said as she urged Russia to release him, ...

LONDON, June 16 (Reuters) - Britain "wholeheartedly" supports Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said as she urged Russia to release him, after reports that he was moved to a high-security prison camp further away from Moscow. Britain "wholeheartedly" supports Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said as she urged Russia to release him, after reports that he was moved to a high-security prison camp further away from Moscow. "We wholeheartedly support Navalny and we are very, very concerned about the reports we have heard and we urge Russia to release him as soon as possible," Truss told parliament on Thursday.

The Russian opposition figure has been transferred to a notoriously violent prison by a regime that has already tried to kill him.

In his last court appearance in late May, he called Putin a “madman” for starting “the stupid war” against Ukraine and denounced the president and his senior officials as “enemies, traitors and murderers” of the Russian people. In 2018, the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta concluded that an inmate whose family was told he had succumbed to pneumonia, had likely died from violence at the hands of prison guards instead. When Navalny’s team found out in May that he would likely serve his sentence in the Melekhovo prison, they immediately warned of its grim reputation and their fears for his safety. He was convicted on new fraud charges in March 2022, this time accused of stealing from his own anti-corruption foundation, in a clear attempt to discredit him. He was swiftly found guilty of violating the terms of his parole for an earlier fraud conviction (that his supporters and the European Court of Human Rights say was arbitrary and “manifestly unreasonable”) and sentenced to two and a half years in prison in February 2021. He has campaigned strenuously against President Vladimir Putin in the decade since, deriding him as a “ liar” and a “ thief”, and publishing embarrassing allegations about his personal wealth.

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Russia's most prominent Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has confirmed he has been transferred to a strict-regime penal colony near Moscow.

Mr Navalny had previously claimed the Russian President was preparing a “prison within a prison” for him, citing letters he had received from IK-6 inmates. New to Flash? Try 1 month free. Stream more world news live & on demand with Flash. 25+ news channels in 1 place.

Russia's most prominent opposition leader Alexei Navalny was abruptly transferred from the prison where he was currently serving an 11-1/2-year sentence to ...

There, his rights to visit and correspond will be diminished. Russia denied trying to kill him. Admiration was shown for Navalny's willingness to return to Russia in 2021 from Germany. He had been there for treatment for a Soviet-era nerve agents.