Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was sent to a punishment cell on Tuesday for allegedly insulting a prison guard, shortly after serving 1,000 days in prison.
“I am in the punishment cell again. For twelve days. The reason is the report of the prison lieutenant, who very mysteriously wrote with restraint: “When he took the convicted Navalny out of the cell to get a mattress , he humiliated me by saying that I am…”, the Russian opponent wrote on his social networking account Telegram.
Despite the restraint, the message – which contains the first and last letters of the swear word – can be interpreted as saying that Navalny insulted the guard, who informed his superiors about the incident.
For this reason, the opponent will spend 236 days in a punishment cell since returning to Russia in 2021, after being poisoned in Siberia in mid-2020, allegedly on the orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Recently, the opposition leader – who was sentenced to about thirty years in prison – spent a thousand days behind bars.
Three lawyers who defended or represented Navalny in the past were recently arrested on charges of extremism.
“They are being prosecuted because they helped their client and destroyed the last vestiges of his right to defense,” denounced the opponent of the Putin regime.
Navalny, 47, who is still serving a nine-year prison sentence for alleged fraud, was sentenced last August to a further 19 years in prison for setting up an organization considered extremist, the Anti-Corruption Fund, which promotes the illegal enrichment of high officials came to light. including Putin, whom he accused of owning a lavish palace on the shores of the Black Sea.
Source: DN
