Imprisoned Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny said on Monday that the authorities at the jail where he is serving his nine-year term had put him in solitary confinement on New Years Eve for the 10th time considering that his sentence began.
My prison hooligans really bothered enough to assemble their commission on the weekend of December 31 especially for me, the vocal Kremlin critic tweeted.Navalny stated that he was sent out to solitary confinement for cleaning his face half an hour earlier than he was supposed to.
He also reported having actually been intentionally put in a cell with a detainee with poor hygiene and serious influenza symptoms.As a result, Navalny is currently experiencing fever, chills, and a cough, his legal representative Vadim Kobzev stated.
This is the 10th time the Kremlin critic has been placed in singular confinement because beginning his sentence less than a year ago.
He was formerly offered the very same penalty for unbuttoning his shirt, declining to clean up a fence, and for stopping working to put his hands behind his back for 3 seconds while walking down a corridor.
Navalny has now invested a total of 4 months in singular confinement, establishing severe back problems as an outcome of the harsh conditions.
The Kremlin critic, who constructed a big social networks operation producing videos exposing corruption amongst federal government officials, was sentenced to 9 years in prison in March 2022.