From the MT:
“Kremlin
Critic Navalny Moved to Notorious Prison Colony”
(The IK-2
prison camp is notorious for psychological isolation and harsh conditions.)
Jailed Kremlin
critic Alexei Navalny has been moved to the IK-2 penal colony in the Vladimir
region to serve his two-and-a-half year sentence, his Instagram account
confirmed Monday. Navalny’s whereabouts had been unknown since Friday, when his
team said he was moved from a pre-trial detention center outside Moscow where
he was being quarantined. Reports citing prison and law enforcement sources
said he was transferred to IK-2, a prison camp in the town of Pokrov notorious
for psychological isolation and harsh conditions. In an Instagram post, Navalny
said he had been moved to IK-2, calling it "a real concentration camp 100
kilometers from Moscow.” “I think someone upstairs read Orwell's '1984' and
said, 'Yeah, cool. Let's do this. Education through dehumanization.' But if you
treat everything with humor, then you can live. So, overall, I'm doing well,”
he wrote alongside an old photo of himself with a close-cropped haircut. Earlier,
the state-run TASS news agency reported that a military garrison court notified
the head of IK-2 that it will consider Tuesday a complaint from Navalny’s
lawyers regarding Russian investigators' inaction toward his August poisoning
in Siberia. The notification, dated March 1, asks the colony’s administration
to ensure Navalny’s participation in the court session via video link. European
scientists and the global chemical weapons watchdog determined that Navalny was
poisoned with a new variant of Novichok when he fell ill on a domestic flight
in August 2020. Navalny spent months recovering in Germany and was jailed upon
his return to Russia in January for violating his probation while abroad. Russia
has refused to open a criminal probe into Navalny’s poisoning despite pressure
from the West.
^ No matter
where Putin tries to hide Navalny he (Navalny) will continue to be a symbol of
hope for Russia. ^
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