Imprisoned Russian Opposition Leader Navalny Located In Penal Colony 3 Weeks After Contact Lost

[shelshaw]

Source: Huffington Post

MOSCOW (AP) — Associates of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Monday that he has been located at a prison colony above the Arctic Circle nearly three weeks after contact with him was lost.

Navalny, the most prominent foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is serving a 19-year sentence on charges of extremism. He had been imprisoned in the Vladimir region of central Russia, about 230 kilometers (140 miles) east of Moscow, but his lawyers said they had not been able to reach him since Dec. 6.

His spokesperson, Kira Yarmysh, said on X, formerly Twitter, that he was located in a prison colony in the town of Kharp, in the Yamalo-Nenetsk region about 1,900 kilometers (1,200 miles) northeast of Moscow.

The region is notorious for long and severe winters; the town is near Vorkuta, whose coal mines were among the harshest of the Soviet Gulag prison-camp system

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[ificandream]

1. Putin put him in the worst place he could find.

[FeelingBlue]

2. Is Putin stupid enough...

To make Navalny a martyr?! What is he thinking?!

[getagrip_already]

3. Martyrs in russia are meaningless...

Forgotten and washed away by the next daily outrage.

What this breed of tyrant has learned to do is to flood the zone with outrage. People become numb to it and there are no martyrs because a new one is minted every week.

[shelshaw]

4. Sounds familiar

[pandr32]

5. Where there is life there is hope.

I'll bet is family is relieved. They probably thought he was dead.

[Joinfortmill]

6. This guy is an iron man.

Pray for him or send healing vibes.

[John1956PA]

7. The Russian labor camp is within the arctic circle.

Surviving the brutal weather in arctic labor camps is a challenge, to say the least. In the 1950s, my father had a cousin who was a young Pole. He was arrested on false charges and was whisked away, possibly to a gulag. He was never heard from again. I despise Russian brutality which has manifested itself over the decades.

[rubbersole]

8. Been waiting for the karma fairy to visit Vlad...

..can't come soon enough. I want to see a picture of Navalny pissing on his grave.

[BComplex]

10. I'm SO with you on that, rubbersole! I hope the karma fairy rubs it in

and acts before Navalny dies. That area of the world is as close to hell as anything we can imagine. And that hell is what putin and trump both deserve.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

11. There's not enough shitty lifetimes possible in the remaining life of the Sun

Before her expanding outer layers turn us into a charcoal briquette to make up for the bad karma they earned this one time around.

[Wild blueberry]

9. Grateful he is still with us

May he be well.