A prisoner was sent to a punishment cell for five days for having woolen socks in his nightstand

Volunteer of Alexei Navalny's headquarters in Cheboksary, Alexei Mironov, spent five days in a punishment cell of a colony-settlement for woolen socks found in his nightstand. this on his Twitter. reports Semyon Kochkin, coordinator of the Cheboksary headquarters,

Over the past month, the authorities of the colony-settlement No. 8 in the Chuvash Republic imposed a penalty on Mironov three times. He received his first verbal reprimand for showering three times a week instead of two, and the other two for keeping woolen socks in the nightstand. For the third misdemeanor, he was placed in a ShIZO for five days.

“One gets the impression that the administration of the colony wants to transfer him to a general regime colony,” summed up the headquarters coordinator.

• Mironov was sentenced to two years and three months in a colony-settlement for incitement to extremism (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code) and inciting hatred (Article 282 of the Criminal Code) due to posts on the VKontakte social network.