The Russian dissident Alexei Navalny made it known that the prison authorities have transferred from the isolation cellwhere he spent more than 100 days after his entry into the penal colony in the Vladimir region, to another section of the prison, the so-called “Pkt”. It’s about another punishing space, where inmates are deprived of their “privileges” such as receiving visits. The maximum time a convict can spend in this section of the penal colony is six months.
A move that his lawyer, according to reports from the Moscow Times, described as “part of the Kremlin’s efforts to further damage his health”. The dissident’s defender, Vadim Kobzev, has previously denounced the deterioration of his physical condition, after he lost seven kilos. Navalny also has excruciating abdominal pains. Even though he can’t take antibiotics, he had been placed in the same cell as a sick inmate. Once infected, he was given antibiotics in horse doses.
Putin’s main opponent’s Instagram profile reports that he has been denied the opportunity to visit his family for the past eight months and the move into solitary confinement means he will not see his wife and children for another six months.
“It has been eight months since I have had a visitor and yesterday I was informed that I would be transferred to another range for six months. No visits are allowed there, so in all I will go over a year without visits. Maniacs and sentenced serial killers life imprisonment they have the right to receive visitors, I don’t,” Navalny wrote.
“Even maniacs and serial killers serving life sentences have the right to meet, but I don’t”, we read on social media, “when something like this happens to you, you understand even more how important it is to fight this unscrupulous government, how important it is to do at least something to free Russia from the yoke of these scoundrels and get rid of the drugs with which they have wrapped the heads of millions of people”.
Navalny denounces having spent most of the last five months in a “shizo” type isolation cell due to continuous measures inflicted on him for specious reasons and considered an abuse of power by the authorities. Already in September, Amnesty International wrote that Navalny’s “health and well-being” “are at serious risk, and this amounts to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment”.
Navalny was locked up in prison in January 2021, as soon as he set foot back in Moscow from Berlin, where he had been treated for a poisoning that had long feared for his life and for which Russian intelligence is suspected.
“THEn all I will go more than a year without visits. Life-sentenced maniacs and serial killers have the right to visitors, I don’t.”
Aleksei Navalny, Russian dissident
