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Jailed Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny Goes Missing from Penal Colony

HeadlineDec 12, 2023

In Russia, supporters of Alexei Navalny say the jailed opposition leader is missing. The Kremlin critic has been locked in a penal colony since 2022, sentenced to more than three decades on what he says are trumped-up charges of fraud and “extremism.” Those charges came after Navalny narrowly survived an assassination attempt in 2020 when he was poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok. On Monday, Navalny’s spokesperson said she feared for his life.

Kira Yarmysh: “The main thing for us is to find him as soon as possible, because right now he is completely alone and he is literally in the hands of people who once tried to kill him. So we don’t know what they will do again.”

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