Imprisoned The team of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny claimed on Monday that they were unaware of his whereabouts after receiving word from the prison camp where he was being kept that he was no longer there.
According to the spokeswoman, Kyra Yarmysh, when his attorneys attempted to visit Navalny on Monday in the jail, they were informed that he was no longer on the list. Since then, she said, they have attempted to locate him at two more adjacent prison camps but were informed he wasn’t there either.
Yarmysh said on X, “They are refusing to say where they have transferred him.”
Approximately 100 miles east of Moscow, in the Vladimir region, Navalny was being imprisoned at Correctional Facility No. 6.
The White House is collaborating with the American Embassy in Moscow to gather further information regarding Navalny’s abduction, and National Security Council spokesman John Kirby stated on Monday that the administration is “concerned” to hear that he has been absent “for allegedly a week.”
The previous week, Navalny’s team announced that he had experienced a “serious health incident,” claiming that he had passed out in the isolation cell. His group stated they thought he might have passed out from starvation.
“Last week, he became sick in his cell. He passed out on the ground due to dizziness. Yarmysh wrote at the time, “The colony staff came over right away, lowered the cot, laid Alexey down, and gave him an IV.”
“We don’t know what it was, but given the fact that he’s not being fed, is being kept in a punishment cell with no ventilation and the time for walks has been reduced to a minimum, it looks like a hunger faint,” wrote Yarmysh.
The lawyer-turned-politician Navalny has been imprisoned since 2021 when he returned to Russia following his recovery from nerve agent poisoning in Germany, which he attributed to the Kremlin. In 2022, Navalny’s sentence of two and a half years for embezzlement and other offenses was extended by nine years by a Russian judge.
Navalny has not gotten any medical attention, according to his team, who raised the alarm earlier this year about his declining health while in solitary confinement. They said that for several months, he had been placed in solitary confinement for two weeks at a time.
