Alexey Navalny reportedly transferred to a "prison within a prison" in Melekhovo

Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has been transferred to a maximum security prison in the village of Melekhovo in the Vladimir region. Regional Public Monitoring Commission Chairman Sergey Yazhan reported the news to RIA Novosti on Tuesday.

“He [Navalny] has arrived at IK-6 [the prison in Melekhovo]. He’s arrived and is there now,” said Yazhan.

Earlier on June 14, associates of Navalny reported that he had been transferred out of Correctional Colony No. 2 in Pokrov but that his new location was unknown.

• On March 22, Moscow's Lefortovo court sentenced Navalny to nine years in a maximum security prison on charges of fraud and contempt of court. The Moscow city court upheld the verdict on March 24.
• In early May, Navalny reported that he might be taken to Melekhovo. “My sentence hasn’t come into effect yet, but inmates at the maximum security prison have reported that a ‘prison within the prison’ is being prepared for me there,” said Navalny. He didn’t specify what they meant by a “prison within the prison.”