“On Friday and throughout today, neither IK-6 nor IK-7 responded to them,” Yarmysh, a person from Alexei Navalny’s legal team posted. He also added that the opposition leader has been missing for the last 6 days and his whereabouts remain unknown.

Alexei Navalny is serving a 19-years in prison on charges like creating an extremist community, financing extremist activities, etc. The opposition leader has suffered from dire illness in prison and even an assassination attempt allegedly by the agents of the Vladimir Putin-led Russian government.

Vladimir Putin has denied all such allegations and claimed that Russia “would have finished” the job if they wanted to kill Alexei Navalny. But, the supporters of Alexei Navalny claim that the opposition leader posed one of the biggest political threats to Russian President Vladimir Putin and that’s why he remains in prison under the charges they claim as “bogus”.

Against Ukraine invasion

Apart from being a direct challenge to Vladimir Putin’s authority, Alexei Navalny also led a campaign from prison against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The opposition leader promised to turn the common Russian citizens against the war.

“We will conduct an election campaign against the war. And against Putin. Exactly. A long, stubborn, exhausting, but fundamentally important campaign, where we will turn people against the war,” Alexei Navalny’s website quoted him as saying.

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Published: 11 Dec 2023, 09:31 PM IST