The opponent of Oleksii Navalny, who has been in prison in Russia for almost two years, told his lawyers how he spent New Year’s Eve in a penal institution, AFP and Agerpres report.

Hearing in the case of Oleksiy Navalny, who is held in correctional colony No. 6 in MelekhovoPhoto: Oleksandr NEMENOV / AFP / Profimedia

In a message published on Monday, evaluated by the France-Presse agency as a new example of strengthening the conditions of detention of the most famous Russian dissident, it is said that the administration of the colony decided to sentence him to 15 days for non-compliance. with regulations. In particular, Navalny claims that he was sanctioned because he used the toilet in the morning at 05:24, 36 minutes earlier than the scheduled time of 06:00.

“This is how they ruined my plan to spend New Year’s Eve with a bag of chips and a can of canned saury (a fish of Japanese origin – ed.), which I had put aside,” wrote the opponent. At midnight, he was caught with two other detainees, one of whom was “psychotic” who was “screaming”. “In general, I am satisfied. People pay to have an original New Year’s Eve, for me it was free,” he commented with his usual humor.

Navalny also noted that in recent months, he is usually put together with a detainee with hygiene problems, who looks like a “forester”, but “now we have to call the tractor driver, because I washed him well, and that’s his job.”

The opponent specified that the administration forces his colleague to travel between the cell and the infirmary, where there is an epidemic of influenza. “It’s like he’s being used as a bacteriological weapon, no wonder he’s depressed,” he added, finishing with “Happy birthday, health!”.

Navalny was arrested in January 2021, shortly after he returned from Germany, where he was being treated for poisoning with a neurotoxic agent that he blames on the Kremlin. In March 2022, he received another nine-year sentence on “fraud” charges, which he says are fabricated. In October last year, he was told that he was charged with other crimes, for which he faced another 30 years in prison.

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