The opposition leader said through his lawyers on Twitter on Monday that he had been fined for regularly not buttoning the top button of his prison uniform. He also tried to persuade fellow prisoners to set up a union.
“The solitary confinement cell is a 2.5 x 3 meter concrete cage. Most of the time it’s unbearable in there because it’s cold and damp. There’s water on the floor,” wrote President Vladimir Putin’s opponent, adding ironically: “I I have the beach version – it’s very hot there and there’s almost no air.” The window is tiny, there is no ventilation. “At night you lie there and feel like a fish out of water. At 5 a.m. they take away your mattress and pillow (…) and lift your bunk. At 9 p.m. the bunk is lowered again and the mattress brought back. There is an iron table, an iron bench, a sink, a hole in the floor and two cameras on the ceiling.”
Arrested after being poisoned and in a coma
Navalny is reportedly serving his sentence on probation violations, fraud and contempt of court in the IK-6 penal colony in Melekhovo, some 250 km east of Moscow. Authorities in Russia describe Navalny and his comrades-in-arms as enemies of the state who wanted to destabilize Russia with the support of the West.
The Kremlin critic was arrested in January 2021 when he returned home from Germany and convicted of violating probation conditions. He collapsed on a domestic Russian flight in August 2020. First he was treated in Russia, then transferred to the Berlin Charité. There, poisoning with a nerve agent was determined. The government in Moscow has denied allegations that Russian authorities tried to kill the Putin opponent.
Source: Nachrichten
