The Russian opposition chief Aleksei A. Navalny has been moved to a jail north of the Arctic Circle however “is doing effectively,” his spokeswoman mentioned on Monday, ending a 20-day thriller over his whereabouts that had many supporters fearing the worst.
“We have now discovered Aleksei,” the spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, said on social media. “His lawyer noticed him in the present day.”
After an exhaustive, frantic search of Russia’s prison system after his Dec. 5 disappearance, Mr. Navalny’s exiled aides mentioned on Wednesday that that they had positioned him in a penal colony within the Yamalo-Nenets area of the Russian Arctic. Ivan Zhdanov, the top of Mr. Navalny’s anticorruption basis, described the ability as certainly one of Russia’s “most northern and most distant” prisons.
The penal colony, often known as IK-3, within the Arctic settlement of Kharp, is about 1,000 miles northeast of the jail the place Mr. Navalny had been held for a lot of the time since his arrest in early 2021.
“Aleksei’s state of affairs is a transparent instance of how the system treats political prisoners, attempting to isolate and suppress them,” Mr. Zhdanov said on social media.