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Daily Mirror
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Will Stewart & Rachel Hagan

Putin critic Alexei Navalny 'sent to torture prison notorious for sexual violence'

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has reportedly been sent to a dreaded “torture” prison notorious for sexual violence.

The high-profile Russian opposition leader did not show up for a meeting with his lawyers today at the Pokrov penal colony.

Leonid Volkov, Navalny's chief of staff, said in a statement on the Telegram app that his lawyer went to see him but was kept at the checkpoint until 2 pm before they told him: "There is no such convict."

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