US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday expressed concern over the lack of knowledge about Alexei Navalny’s whereabouts and demanded the Kremlin’s release as soon as possible.
“We are deeply concerned about the whereabouts of Alexei Navalny, who has been missing from the Russian prison system for almost three weeks,” the head of US diplomacy said on social media.
In the same message, Blinken demanded “again” the “immediate release” of the Russian opponent and that President Vladimir Putin’s government stop “suppressing independent voices in Russia.”
Russian prison services admitted 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.
Opposing lawyers, sentenced to 30 years in prison, have had no contact with their client since December 5 and their associates launched the global campaign “Where is Navalny?”.
On December 7, Navalny appealed from prison to vote against Putin in the March 17 elections.
Source: DN
