Alexei Navalny was again placed in a punishment cell

Politician Alexei Navalny was placed in a punishment cell for the sixteenth time. SOTAvision talks about this with reference to his lawyer Alexander Fedulov.

reports The politician will have to spend 15 days in isolation. What became the reason for the installation is unknown. Navalny’s stay in the punishment cell should have ended on May 18, four days ago.

Previous term Since August 15, 2022, Navalny has been regularly assigned to a punishment cell. Shortly before the first such incident, he announced the creation of the Industrial Zone trade union for prisoners and colony employees. The oppositionist says that because of this he cannot get acquainted with the materials of his criminal case, which contains 20 volumes.

said In addition, being in a punishment cell has a bad effect on Navalny’s health - he suffers from asthma attacks and weight gain. After one of his placements in the punishment cell, Navalny, however, his lawyers gave the prisoner medications. In addition, sick prisoners who were previously in the medical unit are regularly assigned to Navalny in the punishment cell.

experiencing losing sick banned Lawyer Vadim Kobzev believes that the leadership of the colony is deliberately making sure that Navalny’s health gradually deteriorates. In April, employees of the colony administration staged a provocation against the oppositionist and beat him.

It became known that Alexei Navalny is not allowed to read the indictment in the punishment cell. Politics talk about this on Instagram. While Navalny was in a regular cell, the prosecutor's office provided him with a 3,828-page indictment.

On May 26 , it was reported “And the administration of the colony took my indictment, because in the punishment cell it is a prohibited item,” writes Navalny. — A mug (1 pc.) and a book (1 pc.) are on the list, but the indictment is not. But the fact that you are on trial, and you face up to 30 years, and you want to understand what you are accused of and how it is proven, is no one’s business.”

The first hearing on the merits of the charges will take place on May 31, the prisoner’s page says.

• In March 2022, Navalny was sentenced to nine years in a maximum security colony on charges of fraud (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code). In June of the same year he was sent to IK-6 in the Vladimir region. Before the sentencing, the politician was also in prison: he was detained in January 2021, when he was returning from Germany to Russia after his experience. At the same time, the court changed the suspended sentence to which Navalny had previously been sentenced in the Yves Rocher case to a real one. sentenced, transported , poisoned , replaced - In May 2022, an oppositionist that he was charged in the case of creating an extremist community (Part 1 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code) - this happened after the Anti-Corruption Foundation, the Foundation for the Defense of Citizens' Rights and the headquarters of Alexei Navalny were recognized as extremist organizations . In November he was charged with a new criminal case, including four articles. reported presented