Navalny Turns Up in Quarantine at Russia Detention Center
- Activist to be held there until sentence final, lawyer says
- Navalny Instagram post contradicts reports he was in prison
Alexei Navalny during an offsite hearing of the Moscow City Court into his appeal against the court ruling, Feb. 20.
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Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny said he’s being held in quarantine in a detention center 150 kilometers (90 miles) from Moscow, resurfacing for the first time since being taken from his cell in the capital last week to serve a 2 and 1/2-year prison term.
“Everything’s fine with me and there’s even a pull-up bar in the jail yard,” Navalny wrote in an Instagram post from the Kolchugino pre-trial detention center in the Vladimir region.