Jailed Kremlin critic moved to unknown location with other dissidents

Russian opposition activist and Ilya Yashin gestures, smiling, as he stands in a defendant’s cubicle in a courtroom, prior to a hearing in Moscow (Yury Kochetkov/AP)

Ilya Yashin, a prominent Kremlin critic who is serving an eight and a half year jail sentence for criticising Russia’s war in Ukraine, has been moved from his prison to an unknown destination, his lawyer has said.

The statement on the Telegram messaging app by Tatyana Solomina on Tuesday gave no further details.