Alexey Navalny was sent to a punishment cell for the 23rd time since the summer of 2022. This was reported by the politician’s associates.
“Every day I have investigative actions, I have to listen to hundreds of hours of “extremist” reports. audio recordings. The investigation does not want to transfer me to a pre-trial detention center, but they also do not want to visit me somewhere in Siberia in a special regime colony. Therefore, as usual, the norms of Russian law have been abolished in relation to me and they are keeping me in my old place. Constantly in the punishment cell, of course. They just gave me another 15 days. 23rd time, only 266 days,” Navalny reported from Vladimir IK-6.
This morning, a lawyer was not allowed to see the oppositionist in the colony. Also, the politician was not connected via video link to the appeal hearing in the Vladimir Regional Court. A FSIN employee who was in the courthouse said that Navalny was taken out of his cell late, but was immediately taken away because it was the turn of other prisoners to take part in the hearings.
In early November, employees of IK-6, according to the report, “used physical force four times during the day” against Navalny. According to the jailers, this was a response to the politician’s refusal to leave his cell. Then the politician was sent to a punishment cell for the 22nd time.
A punishment cell is the most severe punishment for a prisoner provided for by law. The rest of the time, from November 2022, Navalny was also kept in stricter conditions — in a cell-type room (PKT). In September 2023, he was transferred for a year to a single cell-type premises (EPKT) — a prison inside the colony.
Powering. Simulator of the punishment cell in which Alexei Navalny is kept almost all the time