On Monday, the United States said it was "deeply concerned" about Navalny's "conditions of detention" and demanded his release. The Russian opposition leader was located nearly 3 weeks after losing contact with him.
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00:00 Imprisoned Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny said on Tuesday that he was "doing
00:05 well" after a transfer to a remote prison colony in the Russian Arctic.
00:10 His fate concerns the West and his family, who believe he was sent there to be further
00:14 isolated before upcoming presidential elections.
00:17 "There is no letter from Vsin, no phone line.
00:20 It is almost impossible to contact the prisoner directly.
00:22 But it all indicates that they deliberately sent him to this colony in order to isolate
00:28 Alexei as much as possible, so as not to give him any opportunity to communicate with the
00:33 outside world."
00:34 Karp, a small town of about 5,000 inhabitants, is located in Yamal-Nenetsia, a remote region
00:40 in the north of Russia, beyond the Arctic Circle.
00:45 France have denounced the transfer as a violation of human rights.
00:48 Navalny, a former lawyer, is serving a 19-year prison sentence for charges of extremism.
00:54 He was arrested in January 2021 on his return from convalescing in Germany for poisoning,
01:00 which he blames on the Kremlin.
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