“This has never happened before.” Navalny was not allowed to see his lawyer, who had been waiting for a visit for seven hours.

Employees of Vladimir correctional colony No. 6 did not allow his lawyer to see Alexei Navalny, said the politician’s press secretary Kira Yarmysh.

“Again, disturbing news from Alexei’s colony. Today his lawyer spent 7 hours outside IK-6, waiting to be allowed inside. As a result, he was denied visitation. They didn’t tell me the reason, they told me to make an official statement (!),” Yarmysh wrote.

She emphasized that this had never happened before: “This has never happened before.”

• Alexei Navalny has been in prison since the beginning of 2021. In August 2023, the Moscow City Court sentenced the politician to 19 years in prison in a special regime colony on a new “extremist” case.
• On the night of December 6, 2023, Rosfinmonitoring edited the data on Navalny and his associates in the register of “extremists and terrorists,” marking them as “involved in terrorism.” back in April The politician himself announced that a case had been opened against him under a “terrorist” article.