Putin critic Alexey Navalny moved to a Russian prison known as the "torture conveyor belt"
CBSJul 28, 2022
Kremlin Critic Navalny Confirms Move to Maximum Security Prison
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The Facts
Alexei Navalny, a leading opponent and critic of Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin, on Wed. confirmed that he had been transferred to, and quarantined in, a high security prison.
He was jailed for two and half years for violating parole on his return to Russia in Feb. 2021 from Germany, where he had been recuperating from apparent nerve agent poisoning. He was then sentenced to nine more years at the end of Mar. 2022 for fraud and contempt of court.
The Spin
Anti-Russia narrative
Navalny, who has committed his political career to opposing Putin's despotic and oppressive regime, must be liberated. The labeling of Navalny as an extremist and terrorist is a blatant falsehood being peddled by the Russian state.
Pro-Russia narrative
Western countries are using Navalny as a tool to mold new pretexts for anti-Russian sanctions. Russian authorities were blamed for Navalny's illness last year, despite a clean bill of health before his transfer to Berlin. Western reporting is more concerned with discrediting Russia than with the truth or the safety of Navalny himself.