US Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed concern this Saturday about the lack of information about the whereabouts of Alexei Navalny and demanded the release of the Kremlin as soon as possible.
“We are deeply concerned about the whereabouts of Alexei Navalny, who has been missing in the Russian prison system for almost three weeks,” the head of American diplomacy said on social media.
In the same message, Blinken demands “once again” the “immediate release” of his Russian opponent and that President Vladimir Putin’s government stop “suppressing independent voices in Russia.”
The Russian prison service acknowledged on December 15 that Navalny had been transferred from Vladimir prison, where he had been serving his sentence since June 2022, but did not specify his new destination.
His opponent’s lawyers, sentenced to 30 years in prison, have had no contact with their client since December 5, and their staff launched a global campaign “Where is Navalny?”
On December 7, Navalny made a call from prison to vote against Putin in the March 17 elections.
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