gulag

Navalny’s transfer in December 2023 to a remote prison in the Arctic, to a facility once part of the Soviet-era gulag forced labor system, made access to him almost impossible, his wife said.

In the Soviet Union, jokes about Joseph Stalin or the Communist Party were treated as serious crimes against the state, warranting time in the gulag.

They are deporting people to foreign gulags and countries with which they have no connection, family, money or support.

He has ordered hundreds of people to be deprived of liberty in a foreign gulag, without charge or trial, and his administration is illegally impounding funds authorized by Congress.

El Salvador’s prisons are being used as gulags by the current administration.