Russia Sends Navalny to Notorious Penal Camp Feared by Inmates
- Detention facility is 100 kilometers (60 miles) east of Moscow
- Opposition leader to serve 2 1/2 years without right to parole
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Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, who survived a chemical poisoning last year that he called a Kremlin attempt to kill him, has begun serving his two-and-a-half-year sentence at a notorious penal camp.
Navalny, who was removed from his Moscow jail cell Thursday, is being held at a detention facility in the prison in the Vladimir region, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) east of the Russian capital, Alexey Melnikov, secretary of the civil oversight commission of Moscow, told Bloomberg.