Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny ‘moved from jail’

Russian news agency TASS reports Alexey Navalny moved to a penal colony to serve his sentence for parole violations.

Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny has been moved from a jail where he had been held in quarantine for the past several weeks, and the TASS news agency said he was now at the penal colony where he is meant to serve out a two-and-a-half-year sentence. One of Navalny’s lawyers told Reuters news agency that he was no longer being held at the Kolchugino jail in the Vladimir region northeast of Moscow, but said the legal team had not been told where he had been taken. TASS, quoting an unidentified law enforcement official, said it was to the nearby IK-2 penal colony. A spokeswoman for the Federal Penitentiary Service said she could not disclose information on Navalny’s whereabouts because of laws protecting personal information.