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December 12, 2023

Jailed Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny Goes Missing from Penal Colony
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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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