Alexei Navalny, serving a prison sentence in colony No. 6 of the Vladimir region, said on social media on Tuesday, that he was returned to solitary confinement in a disciplinary cell and forced to undergo “extremely hellish” conditions.
Navalny quit ShIZO on Friday, April 7, and was fired on Monday after Navalny supporters published an investigation into financial fraud at the Federal Prison Service using the example of buying cabbage to cook prisoners.
On this occasion, Navalny writes: “See for yourself. The wholesale price of cabbage in the summer was 6 rubles per kilogram (in the carousel). At the same time, the Federal Penitentiary Service buys it for 27 rubles 50 kopeks in unimaginable quantities. There are 400,000 convicts in the country and cabbage is their main diet. All other products are purchased in much the same way. So this cabbage is golden. Everyone is brought there: from the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service Gostev, who carefully does not notice the insane prices, to the leadership of the settlements.
After the publication of the “golden cabbage” investigation, Navalny was again sent to the ShIZO.
“The next day I was locked in a ShIZO, they immediately started doing a ‘work cell’, changed the daily routine from hell to super-hell,” Navalny wrote.
Navalny described these conditions as follows: “Also, at the same time that I was restricted in buying food (we now have new rules), they fixed a march at 7 a.m. (important, because when you walk during the day, you can stand in the square of the sun, if you’re lucky), they almost completely eliminated the time for letters and even organized a personal sewing workshop for me. The neighboring cell was transformed into a “work” cell, that is to say, they installed a sewing machine there. It’s not easy to sit in a stuffy kennel, and even to sew there.
This is Navalny’s 13th transfer to ShIZO.
Lawyer Vadim Kobzev said on Twitter that Navalny’s health deteriorated sharply on April 7 and an ambulance was called for him: “Navalny, of course, writes happy and cheerful articles, but he will not write not that on Friday night at an ambulance was called to his cell because of a stomach ailment which had worsened further after another ShIZO. An unknown disease for which no one treats him.
The lawyer also said that “according to his medical records, during these 15 days he lost 8 kg of weight. The packages with medicines that his mother sends him, the colony absolutely does not collect in the post office, and they returned to him.
Kobzev said he would demand toxicological and radiological tests, because his client could discreetly receive toxic substances in small doses. According to the lawyer, “Looking at the glaring and very strange situation around Navalny’s health, with convulsions, the signs of which have never been, it is possible that he is simply ‘addicted’.”
Navalny, 46, is serving a combined sentence of 11.5 years in a strict-regime colony on charges of fraud and contempt of court fabricated by authorities. Navalny himself says he was thrown behind bars to silence him.
The Navalny documentary won the Best Documentary Oscar in March 2023.
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