INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The whereabouts of four Russian political prisoners are unknown after their apparent transfer to new prison facilities in recent days,
lawyers and relatives said on Monday.Prison authorities in Russia often subject high-profile inmates to secret and lengthy transfers across
Shortly before his death at an Arctic penal colony in February, the whereabouts of late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny were unknown for
the penal colony in the Perm region where she was being held last Friday and has not been heard from since
"She's nowhere to be found," he wrote on X (formerly Twitter).Chanysheva was the first of Navalny's associates to be arrested on "extremism"
charges in 2021 and was sentenced to nine and a half years in prison earlier this year
In May, Russian state media claimed that she asked President Vladimir Putin for a pardon.Meanwhile, jailed activist Ksenia Fadeyeva's
lawyers said prison authorities in the Novosibirsk region informed them that she had also "left" but declined to say when or why
Fadeyeva, another Navalny ally, is serving a nine-year "extremism" sentence.Oleg Orlov, who serves as the co-chair of the human rights group
Memorial, was also said to have "left" the prison where he was being held in the city of Syzran, according to his lawyer
The 71-year-old veteran activist was sentenced to two and a half years in prison this year for his opposition to the full-scale invasion of
She was sentenced last fall to seven years behind bars for replacing price tags at a St
Petersburg supermarket with anti-war messages.Skochilenko's supporters believe she was moved from St
Petersburg to a prison in Moscow.It was not immediately clear whether the apparent prison transfers were connected.A Message from The Moscow
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