Navalny Located in Remote Siberian Penal Colony With Harsh Conditions
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Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny has been located at a penal colony in Siberia after his team lost contact with him for 2 weeks. He is at IK-3 in Yamal-Nenets, known as "Polar Wolf".
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Navalny was sentenced to 19 years in prison in August 2022 on charges his supporters say are politically motivated.
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The penal colony where he is now held is almost 2,000 miles from Moscow and has harsh conditions, with a special regime in the permafrost zone.
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In 2020, Navalny was poisoned with Novichok nerve agent and airlifted to Germany for treatment, implicating Russia's FSB security service.
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Navalny was immediately jailed when he returned to Russia in 2021, accused of violating probation terms related to a prior fraud case he says was politically motivated.