Alexei Navalny vanishes after being removed from prison to unknown location

“Where Alexei is now, and which colony he is being taken to, we don’t know,” Leonid Volkov, Navalny’s chief of staff, said in a statement on Telegram.

Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s most vocal critic, had most recently been in custody at Correctional Colony No. 2, a prison camp in Pokrov, 74 miles east of Moscow.

But when Navalny’s lawyer arrived to visit him Tuesday, he was told, “There is no such convict here,” his spokesperson Kira Yarmysh wrote on Twitter.