Moscow: in prison Kremlin critic alexey Navalny Said he has been taken to an isolation cell in the penal colony where he is being kept, blaming the Russian authorities for the move.
In a statement on Twitter on Wednesday, he said officials justified the move by saying he was unable to put his hands behind his back for three seconds as he walked through the camp, the DPA news agency reported. failed.
He tweeted, “The instruction clearly came from Moscow. Even by Russian prison standards, sending one to the sentencing cell without a hand behind their back for just three seconds is too much. ”
His plan to set up a trade union from within the prison had also recently angered the authorities.
Navalny said he had spent three days in the cell last week, measuring 2.5 by 3 metres, allegedly because he had failed to button an item of clothing.
He tweeted: “Here I am once again sitting in my hellish closet with a mug and a book. This is definitely boring. Guess I need to learn to meditate.”
He is currently serving a sentence for alleged fraud, but is widely seen as an attempt to silence one of the Kremlin’s most vocal opponents.
He is being kept in the penal colony 6 inches melekhovo About 260 km northeast of Moscow in particularly harsh conditions.
The Russian judiciary is widely seen as controlled by the Kremlin, and has been criticized by human rights activists for its arbitrary decisions.
In August 2020 Navalny narrowly escaped an attempt to poison him with the chemical agent Novichok, for which he blamed the president Vladimir Putin,
In a statement on Twitter on Wednesday, he said officials justified the move by saying he was unable to put his hands behind his back for three seconds as he walked through the camp, the DPA news agency reported. failed.
He tweeted, “The instruction clearly came from Moscow. Even by Russian prison standards, sending one to the sentencing cell without a hand behind their back for just three seconds is too much. ”
His plan to set up a trade union from within the prison had also recently angered the authorities.
Navalny said he had spent three days in the cell last week, measuring 2.5 by 3 metres, allegedly because he had failed to button an item of clothing.
He tweeted: “Here I am once again sitting in my hellish closet with a mug and a book. This is definitely boring. Guess I need to learn to meditate.”
He is currently serving a sentence for alleged fraud, but is widely seen as an attempt to silence one of the Kremlin’s most vocal opponents.
He is being kept in the penal colony 6 inches melekhovo About 260 km northeast of Moscow in particularly harsh conditions.
The Russian judiciary is widely seen as controlled by the Kremlin, and has been criticized by human rights activists for its arbitrary decisions.
In August 2020 Navalny narrowly escaped an attempt to poison him with the chemical agent Novichok, for which he blamed the president Vladimir Putin,