Alexei Navalny confirmed that he had been transferred to the strict regime colony colony in Vladimir. A letter was published on Navalny's social networks, in which the oppositionist says that he is now quarantined in IK-6 Melehovo and describes what he saw in the colony.

“Space travel continues - I moved from ship to ship. Well, that is, hello to everyone from the strict regime zone. Yesterday I was transferred to IK-6 "Melekhovo". I'm in quarantine so I don't have much to say. Well, here are just two recent impressions. About cultural life and lawlessness.

About cultural life: I almost moved while I was dragging books into / out of the paddy wagon that I have in my warehouse. And the jailers almost moved while they were copying them. And this despite the fact that, fearing such a situation, a month ago I hardly persuaded the administration to accept 50 books from me in the prison library. Honestly, yesterday for the first time in my life I was dragging these bags and I thought that a fire made of books is not necessarily something bad.

About lawlessness: an announcement hangs in quarantine with a list of professions that can be obtained here, and the duration of training. So, you can become, like me, a seamstress - this elite of the working class, instantly distinguishing a linen seam from a sewing seam - in 3 months. And imagine, those who have chosen the profession of “bird carcass deboner” also study for 3 months! That is, in this sense, they are equated with us, seamstresses. Well, what, what do you need to study there for 3 months ?! Do they roll these carcasses in rhinestones, or something?

Very outraged. Well, everything else is ok. Hello everyone, I hug everyone, eat the bird without breading.

On the eve of June 14, the chairman of the regional Public Monitoring Commission, Sergei Yazhan, announced Navalny's transfer to a strict regime colony.

In May, Navalny himself wrote that he could be transferred to IK-6 in Melehovo.

IK-6 is known for reports of torture of prisoners. So, in 2021, Pavel Zotov, who was in prison in the Vladimir region from 2009 to 2021, spoke about bullying. He recalled that in IK-6 convicts in police clothes laid him on the floor, undressed him, tied his hands and feet and beat him with a truncheon on his heels and groin. In December 2021, 27-year-old prisoner Zhobir Zhuraev said that guards and prisoners collaborating with the administration systematically beat him, tortured him, starved him and threatened him with rape.

On June 14, Alexei Navalny's press secretary, Kira Yarmysh, reported that the founder of the FBK had been taken away from colony IK-2 in Pokrov.

“The lawyer who came to see him was kept at the checkpoint until 2 pm, and then they said: ‘There is no such convict. Where Alexey is now and what colony he is being taken to, we don’t know, ”she wrote.

According to Yarmysh, neither lawyers nor Alexei's relatives were informed about his transfer in advance.

“The problem with being transferred to another colony is not only that a strict regime colony is much worse. All the while, while we do not know where Alexey is, he remains alone with the system, which has already tried to kill him. Therefore, now the main task is to find him as soon as possible, ”wrote Yarmysh.

Navalny was sent to a colony after the Simonovsky District Court changed his suspended sentence in the Yves Rocher case to a real sentence of 3.5 years in early February. The formal reason was that the oppositionist did not come to the penitentiary commission to report on the appointed days, but since August 2020, after he was poisoned by Novichok and transported to Germany, he stopped appearing at the inspector at all.

Navalny and his lawyers assured the court that the oppositionist was physically unable to visit the inspector, as he was first inpatient and then outpatient treatment in a German clinic and notified the penitentiary inspectorate about this.

On March 22, the court sentenced Alexei Navalny to 9 years of strict regime in the case of "fraud and insulting the court." The visiting session of the Lefortovo Court took place right in the penal colony No. 2 in Pokrov, where Navalny is already serving his sentence in the Yves Rocher case. Prosecutor Nadezhda Tikhonova requested 13 years in a strict regime colony for him. The day before, Vladimir Putin promoted the judge in charge of Navalny's case.