Navalny received his first reprimand in the maximum security colony, where he was transferred a week ago

Politician Alexei Navalny received his first reprimand in the Vladimir maximum security penal colony No. 6, where he was transferred from correctional colony No. 2 in Pokrov on June 15. This is stated on his Twitter page.

“I’ve been in my cozy high-security zone for less than a week, and I’ve already been given a “reprimand with the rights of the head of the institution.” <…> reports, reprimands and rewards are the most important part of life in the “red” zones. This (of course, also beatings and torture) controls everything here. The administration loves you - you constantly receive incentives, which means transfers and dates. If he doesn’t like it, violations are invented for you, reports are written on them and reprimands are given,” Navalny wrote.

After two reprimands, prisoners can be sent to a punishment cell, where, according to the oppositionist, they can easily “die from pneumonia or break their neck by falling from a bunk.”

According to the rules, all reprimands expire one year after receiving the last one. As Navalny notes, he received the last one in August 2021 in the Pokrovsk colony. However, it turned out that before being transferred to IK-6, another report was filed against him for “violating the dress code.” He was examined in the new colony, and Navalny was given a new reprimand.

“My new zone, having examined the letter, summoned me to a commission, condemned me for such lawlessness and issued a new reprimand. So my 30 previous reprimands are now with me for another year. It’s very convenient - at any moment I can be recognized as a malicious offender and thrown into a punishment cell,” Navalny said.

His press secretary Kira Yarmysh reported in May that the politician was being transferred to IK-6 in the city of Melekhovo. Mediazona published a letter from convict Ivan Fomin, who spoke about systematic torture and sexual violence in this institution.

In 2021, Navalny’s suspended sentence was replaced with a real one in the Yves Rocher case and sent to IK-2 in Pokrov. In March, the Lefortovo District Court of Moscow, at an off-site hearing, sentenced him to 9 years in a maximum security colony in a case of fraud in collecting donations, as well as contempt of court when considering a case of slander against veteran Ignat Artemenko.