Russian authorities have put on hold two hearings for jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny. A United Nations rights expert earlier expressed concern about the dissident's "enforced disappearance."
Russian court filings showed that two court hearings for opposition politician Alexei Navalny, scheduled for Monday, have been postponed until January.
The Kremlin critic's allies say his lawyers have not seen him since December 6 and have expressed concern over the lack of information about where he is.
Navalny had been preparing for an expected transfer to a "special regime" colony, the most severe grading in Russia's prison system.
The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Russia, Mariana Katzarova, said the failure to reveal where Navalny is was alarming.
Katzarova said Navalny had been persistently ill-treated in detention and deprived of access to adequate medical care, damaging his health, and putting his life at risk.
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