By EFE
Dec 24, 2023, 17:01 PM EST
The Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinken, expressed his concern this Saturday about the opacity regarding the whereabouts of Aleksei Navalny and demanded that the Kremlin release the Russian opposition leader as soon as possible.
“We are deeply concerned about the whereabouts of Aleksei Navalny, who has been missing in the Russian prison system for almost three weeks,” said the head of US diplomacy on social networks.
In the same message, Blinken demanded “once again” the “immediate release” of the opponent and that the Government of Russian President Vladimir Putin stop “repressing independent voices in Russia.”
The Russian penitentiary services (FSIN) admitted on December 15 that Navalny was transferred from the Vladimir prison, where he had been serving his sentence since June 2022, but did not specify his new destination.
The lawyers of the opponent, sentenced to 30 years in prison, have not had contact with their client since December 5 and his collaborators launched the global campaign “Where is Navalni?”
On December 7, Navalni asked from prison to vote against Putin in the March 17, 2024 elections.
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