Russian news agencies have reported that a court has rejected the latest in a series of lawsuits that Navalny has brought against prison authorities over his detention status.
The 46-year-old politician and activist is serving a nine-year sentence in the maximum security prison IK-6, located in the village of Melikhovo, in the Vladimir region, about 250 kilometers east of Moscow.
Video of the hearing showed Navalny speaking in court from a distance from a small prison room.
The politician opposed to Putin’s regime was standing, gesturing and protesting strongly against the authorities’ decision to put him in solitary confinement.
“I consider the worst offender and I am in solitary confinement for systematically causing ridiculous violations,” Navalny told a judge in the Kovrov regional city of Vladimir.
Earlier this year, Russian prison authorities arrested Navalny and put him in a cell for five days for calling a police officer by his name and again for seven days for walking three seconds in that cell without putting his hands behind his back, thus violating the prison. Grammar.
At today’s hearing, Navalny complained about the unfair treatment he is being subjected to.
“There are people in dungeon-type rooms, but no one but me in the dungeon. Indeed, any convict should be put in a dungeon, because no petty infractions can be imagined more than ‘two seconds.’” [sem] Navalny said.
On August 21, 2020, Navalny was hospitalized in serious condition, on suspicion of poisoning, after he fell unwell during a flight to Moscow that landed in an emergency situation in the Siberian city of Omsk.
Days later, the Russian authorities allowed him to be transferred to Germany, where he was treated at the Charité University clinic in Berlin for 32 days for nerve agent poisoning.
After spending some time in Germany, he returned to Russia in January 2021, but was arrested upon landing in Moscow.
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