Republicans are allies with the guy who does this to people willing to stand up to him:
Associates of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny say he has been located at a prison colony above the Arctic Circle nearly three weeks after contact with him was lost.
Associates of Alexei Navalny say he has been located at a prison colony above the Arctic Circle nearly three weeks after contact with him was lost.
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Navalny, the most prominent foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is serving a 19-year sentence on charges of extremism. He had been imprisoned in the Vladimir region of central Russia, about 230 kilometers (140 miles) east of Moscow, but his lawyers said they had not been able to reach him since Dec. 6.
His spokesperson, Kira Yarmysh, said he was located in a prison colony in the town of Kharp, in the Yamalo-Nenets region about 1,900 kilometers (1,200 miles) northeast of Moscow.
Navalny is “fine — at least as much as possible after such a long stage” and a lawyer visited him, Yarmysh told The Associated Press.
The region is notorious for long and severe winters. The town is about 100 kilometers (60 miles) from Vorkuta, whose coal mines were among the harshest of the Soviet Gulag prison-camp system.
“It is almost impossible to get to this colony; it is almost impossible to even send letters there. This is the highest possible level of isolation from the world,” Navalny’s chief strategist, Leonid Volkov, said on X.
They sent a sick man who is recovering from poisoning that was perpetrated by the same man that Trump serves and Republicans are aiding with their denial of funds to help Ukraine defend itself.
Navalny has been behind bars in Russia since January 2021, when he returned to Moscow after recuperating in Germany from nerve agent poisoning that he blamed on the Kremlin. Before his arrest, he campaigned against official corruption and organized major anti-Kremlin protests.
Donald Trump, the man that MAGA Republicans are probably going to nominate as their candidate for President of the United States is promising them that he'll put the "vermin" who oppose him into prisons. In earlier statements he made while holding the office of POTUS, he talked about his admiration of dictators like Putin, Xi and Kim Jong Un, all of whom operate prisons with horrendous conditions. And MAGA controlled House of Representatives are trying to make it all happen here.
Oh, and Fuck Trump.