>>> SOME BREAKING NEWS TODAY. IMPRISONED ALEXEI NAVALNY HAS BEEN FOUND AFTER NEARLY THREE WEEKS SINCE CONTACT WAS LOST. HIS ASSOCIATES SAY HE HAS BEEN REMOVED TO A REMOTE PRISON COLONY INSIDE SIBERIA WHERE HE WILL BE EXTREMELY ISOLATED. JOINING US IS ALI AROUZI. WHAT ELSE DO WE KNOW ABOUT IN A A -- NAVALNY'S WHEREABOUTS AND HOW DID HIS LAWYERS FIND HIM? >> Reporter: HIS SPOKESMAN SAYS HE IS ALIVE AND IN THE PENAL COLONY IN THE NORTH OF RUSSIA. HE WENT MISSING ON DECEMBER 6 AND HIS SUPPORTERS, HIS LAWYERS, WERE FRANTICALLY SEARCHING FOR HIM BECAUSE THERE WAS NO WORD FROM HIM. HE WAS NOWHERE TO BE SEEN. THEY RELENTLESSLY KEPT UP THE PURSUIT TO TRY TO FIND THEM AND HE HAS SHOWN UP TODAY ON THE 25th OF DECEMBER IN A PENAL COLONY IN THE NORTHERNMOST PART OF RUSSIA. IT IS KNOWN AS ONE OF THE HARDEST PENAL COLONIES IN RUSSIA, A PERMAFROST THERE, A TOUGH REGIME FOR INMATES THERE. AND MOST OF THE INMATES THAT ARE THERE ARE CONVICTED CRIMINALS THAT ARE SERVING SENTENCES FOR SOME TRULY HEINOUS CRIMES. NOW, NAVALNY SUPPORTERS SAY THAT HE HAS BEEN SENT THERE TO KEEP HIM QUIET. AND THEY SAY IT IS NO COINCIDENCE HE WENT MISSING ON DECEMBER 6 BECAUSE TWO DAYS AFTER HE WENT MISSING, VLADIMIR PUTIN ANNOUNCED HIS INTENTIONS TO RUN IN ELECTIONS AGAIN AND NAVALNY'S SUPPORTERS SAY THAT THE KREMLIN JUST DOESN'T WANT HIM TO BE ABLE TO VOCALIZE AT ALL. AND THAT IS WHY HE HAS BEEN SENT TO THIS VERY REMOTE PRISON. ALSO KNOWN AS THE POLAR WOLF, RATHER OMINOUSLY. CONDITIONS THERE ARE VERY DIFFICULT, IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO GET THERE. AND INMATES THERE BASICALLY HAVE NO CONTACT WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD. THEY ARE NOT EVEN ALLOWED TO SEND OR RECEIVE LETTERS. SO AS FAR AS THE KREMLIN IS CONCERNED, THAT IS THE PERFECT PLACE TO KEEP THEIR MOST VOCAL CRITIC, A MAN WHO HAS BEEN ABLE TO GALVANIZE A LOT OF SUPPORT AGAINST THE KREMLIN AND A MAN THAT HAS BEEN ABLE TO MOBILIZE PEOPLE TO PROTEST AGAINST VLADIMIR PUTIN. SOMETHING THAT NO OTHER RUSSIAN ACTIVIST HAS REALLY BEEN ABLE TO DO. THE CONDITIONS IN THIS PRISON ARE MEANT TO BE VERY BAD. HE IS SAID TO HAVE SOME STOMACH CONDITIONS. AND THEY DON'T THINK THAT ANY OF THESE ARE GOING TO BE SEEN TO AT THAT PENAL
