Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny filed a lawsuit with the Preobrazhensky Court of Moscow against the Matrosskaya Tishina SIZO (SIZO-1 of the Federal Penitentiary Service for Moscow), where he was held before being transferred to a colony in the Vladimir Region. As the press secretary of the court Alisa Zakutnyaya clarified, he decided to challenge the decision of the commission of the regional executive authority.

What is the essence of the claim, she could not tell.

An informed source told Interfax that in the lawsuit, Navalny is asking to declare illegal the administration's decision to register him as prone to escape..

In February it became known that Navalny, who was then in the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center, was put on preventive records as prone to escape..

As previously stated by the defense, registering him as prone to escape may prevent the opposition leader's parole..