A leading pro-democracy campaigner and Kremlin critic has been sentenced to 25 years in a Russian penal colony for condemning the war in Ukraine after a show trial that has been compared with the most brutal excesses of the Stalin era.

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At the time of writing, Navalny had been found to have been relocated to the IK-3 penal colony in Kharp in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District of Siberia, after two weeks of his lawyers being unaware of his whereabouts.

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"From hefty fines to imprisonment, repeat offenders could even find themselves shipped off to a penal colony.

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He is due to be transferred to “special security” penal colony, which has the highest security in the country’s penal system.

Source: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/putins-missing-political-rival-navalny-31648889

He was sentenced to nine years in a maximum security penal colony in 2022 after years of tug-of-war with the Russian authorities.

Source: https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/stay-strong-my-love-putin-critics-wife-after-documentary-him-wins-oscar-1714082

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has been tracked down to a penal colony north of the Arctic Circle, his spokeswoman said on Monday, after supporters lost touch with him for more than two weeks.

Source: https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2023/12/25/russias-navalny-tracked-down/

Russian anti-war activist Sasha Skochilenko, 33, was sentenced to seven years in a penal colony for replacing supermarket pricing labels with anti-war messages.

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