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Dozens of countries including Canada called on Russia on Friday to release Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny saying his imprisonment was unlawful and demanding an investigation into his poisoning last year.
In a statement read out by Poland to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, they said that actions by Russian authorities against the opposition leader were “unacceptable and politically motivated”. The 45 countries were mainly European but also included the United States, Australia and Japan.
Alexei Navalny has been moved from jail to an unknown location, his lawyers have claimed.
The opposition leader, 44, was last reported to be in penal colony number 2 - known as IK-2 - east of Moscow, where torture-like conditions are so horrific inmates have severely injured themselves to avoid being sent there.
But a post shared to Mr Navalny s Twitter account on Friday said his lawyers don t know where the Kremlin critic is now after he was transported today.
They were banned from visiting him at a pre-trial detention centre in the morning, the tweet said.
At around 2pm, they were told that Mr Navalny had been moved, but authorities refused to divulge where to.