Former metropolitan municipal deputy Ilya Yashin, sentenced to 8.5 years in a general regime colony under the article on discrediting the Russian army (known as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation), was transferred from the colony where he served his sentence. This was reported by TASS referring to his lawyer Mikhail Biryukov.
“I can confirm that Yashin was taken from the colony where he was being held,” he said.
According to Biryukov, the lawyer arrived there and a representative of the FSIN department said that Yashin had gone in an unknown direction.
“We have no knowledge of the alleged exchange reported in the media,” the lawyer added.
Recently from Russian prisons disappeared large numbers of Russian dissidents, anti-war activists and foreigners. Human rights advocates say it could be a sign of an impending prisoner swap with the West. Also became knownInformation on some prisoners with Russian citizenship has reportedly disappeared from the US Federal Bureau of Prisons database.
Previously in Slovenia It has been said About the upcoming large-scale exchange between the West and the Russian Federation.