But late in the day, the chairman of a prison monitoring commission said Navalny had been transferred to a maximum-security prison nearby. Navalny was moved to the IK-6 prison in the village of Melekhovo in the Vladimir region, Russian news agencies reported, citing Sergei Yazhan, chairman of the regional Public Monitoring Commission. The lack of information about the whereabouts of Navalny, the most determined political foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin, had worried his allies. The judge ordered the Kremlin critic to serve the new sentence in a maximum-security prison. The new conviction followed a year-long Kremlin crackdown on Navalny’s supporters, other opposition activists and independent journalists in which authorities appear eager to stifle all dissent.

Source: ABC News June 14, 2022 21:48 UTC