Navalny is alive, found in Siberia

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is alive and being held in a penal colony in Siberia, reported British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), quoting his spokeswoman.

"We found Alexei Navalny," said the report, quoting Kira Yarmysh as saying on Monday, adding that he was now in northern Russia.

His team had had no contact with him since 6 December, after he was moved from a previous prison, said BBC.

Earlier in August, Navalny was sent to another 19 years imprisonment, which was termed by Finland politically motivated.

Three years have passed since the assassination attempt through poisoning of Navalny on 20 August 2020 in Russia by using a toxic nerve agent of the “Novichok” group, banned under the Chemical Weapons Convention, to which the Russian Federation is a State Party.

Earlier in 2021, the then Prime Minister and Foreign Minister protested the prison sentence of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny when he was sentenced to 3.5 years of imprisonment.