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"Are you people at all?"
How they mocked Alexei Navalny
Alexey Navalny in a correctional colony No. 2 in Pokrov. Photo: Sergey Karpukhin / TASS
Throughout the prison term, Alexei Navalny was almost not released from the penalty insulator. He was declared absolutely wild and absurd penalties over and over again. Since August 2022, Alexei Navalny visited a schizo 27 times - he spent more than 300 days in penalties! The prepositions are very different: from an unbuttoned button to the point that he did not immediately remove his hands behind his back. The FSIN constantly worsened the position of Navalny, he was not provided with timely medical care, transported from the colony to the colony until they threw it to the extreme north, he was cut off from the outside world: neither correspondence, nor news, lawyers constantly hindered in communicating with their client and transfer of documents necessary for preparation for court hearings.
Pokrovskaya colony of general regime
Long before Navalny, they began to constantly lock in the penalty area (schizo), in the IK-2 of the cover he created unbearable conditions of existence. As the former prisoners of this colony told reporters, they specially created the “Politics” detachment in the IR - and the prisoners in it were instructed: not to talk and write down every step with Navalny.
After returning from the hospital, where Navalny got as a result of a hunger strike, he was not allowed to sleep. At night, every two hours he was awakened by the colony officers as a “prone to escape” and put on a “professional science” - such a check. A person who constantly made different sounds was put on a neighboring bunk, spit and masturbated. Another prisoner was allegedly sick with open tuberculosis (which later turned out to be untrue). Navalny in every possible way provoked a manifestation of violence, but he did not give in to provocations.
Colony of maximum security in Melekhovo
A series of deadlines in the schizu at Navalny began in the Vladimir IK-6 in Melekhovo when he announced the creation of the Promzone Prison Trade Union. The colony administration issued a policy of official warning that he "cannot violate the laws on rallies and processions."
“The first award was the wild eyes of the administration’s employees. They thought I was joking when I was talking about the trade union. And now they call it exclusively "illegal." Then they began to call me daily to the disciplinary commission and give me reprimands, ”said Navalny.
Then, on August 12, 2022, for the first time he was sent to a schizo for three days under the pretext of an unfastened button. Since then, Navalny almost did not leave the penalty insulator. According to the law, a prisoner cannot be sent to a schizo for more than 15 days. But the colonies administration easily bypass this restriction: they release the prisoner after the end of the term, on the same day they find a violation and the next one is sent to the insulator again.
SHISO is one of the most severe types of punishment in the colony. At the time of the content, the prisoner has neither personal things, nor products, the school is fastened with the wall during the day, and the book or written accessories is issued an hour once a day.
Dating, programs, phone calls and even buying products in a prison store are prohibited there.
“It is arranged like that. Concrete kennel 2.5 × 3 meters. Most often there is unbearable, because it is cold and damp. Water on the floor. My beach option is very hot and almost no air. The window is tiny, because of the thickness of the walls, the air does not go-even the web does not move. There is no ventilation. At night you lie and feel like a fish on the shore. The iron bed is fastened to the wall, such as in the train. Only the lever dropping it outside. At 5 in the morning you take a mattress and a pillow (this is called “soft inventory”) and lift the bed. At 9 pm, the bed is again lowered and the mattress is returned. Iron table, iron shop, sink, hole in the floor. There are two chambers under the ceiling, ” - describe the policy of the conditions in the schizo.
For which Navalny was put into a schizo (this is only a small part):
Three days were given for an unbuttoned button
five days - did not immediately remove his hands behind his back
seven days for quoting the decision of the ECHR
then another 15 days for reading the decision of the ECHR
14 days - for refusing to wash the fence
11 days for “poorly cleaning the yard” and called the employee a “lieutenant”.
"What is happening in your head, how do you live?"
A year ago, the associates of Navalny reported that the politician fell ill in a schizo: he had a high temperature, cough and fever. The lawyer was not allowed to give him medicines. The opposition claimed that he was refused hospitalization due to the fact that patients with flu were lying in the medical unit of the colony. At the same time, his cellmate was regularly sent to the medical unit for a day and returned to a schizo to politics.
Russian doctors wrote an open letter to Putin, demanding to "stop bullying" over the prisoner:
“The conditions of the detention and the appearance of Alexei Navalny cause us great concern for his life and health. The refusal of representatives of the FSIN to transmit to Alexei the necessary medicines creates a direct threat to life. From a medical point of view, it is obvious that Alexei does not receive medical care in sufficient volume, and its content in a schizu is absolutely contraindicated in its state. ”
Doctors demanded to stop sending Navalny to the schizo all the time, allow civilian doctors to him and, if there are indications, hospitalize in a civilian hospital.
Navalny's wife Julia wrote on Instagram* post about her husband's illness:
“Alexey caught a cold. You say - what nonsense, everyone is catching a cold, and I agree with you. Only here is a small difference. <...> And now imagine that you were closed in a cage size 2 by 3 meters, they planted a person who is already sick with you, so that you are stronger to catch a cold and that the flu is overlapped on your cold, you will not be wake up at 6 in the morning and do not allow you to go to bed all day, although you have a high temperature. ”
She stated that her husband did not provide medical assistance and "specially worsen the conditions of detention."
“I will turn to the administration and medical personnel IK-6. Are you people at all? After all, parents, children are waiting for you from work. What is happening in your head, how do you live, rejoicing that you specially infected a person, do not treat him and do not give medications? <...> Alexei, of course, will recover sooner or later, and you will live all your life with the fact that your work has been to torture people. And maybe now you are reading this post, rub the pens joyfully and giggling, but someday the realization of what ugly act you commit will reach you. Leave it alone for at least a few days and give him elementary medicines! ” - wrote Navalny.
In the FSIN, reports of Navalny's problems with health and not providing medical care were not commented.
At the same time, it is worth recalling that behind bars Alexei Navalny turned out to be actually immediately after the hospital, where he underwent treatment from the consequences of poisoning in an unknown substance. And these consequences were never completely cured.
A special regime colony in Harpe
For the first time in the SHISO IK-3 on Yamal Navalny, they sent on January 9-then the reason for the recovery was that after the quarantine he "refused to introduce himself in form." The associates of the opposition wrote that, according to employees of the correctional institution, Navalny also does not respond to educational work, does not make proper conclusions for himself. ”
At the end of January, the policy was appointed the next penalty-10 days the schizo due to the fact that he again "introduced himself incorrectly." After that, Navalny got into the penulator in early February.
The last time, February 14, it became known that the politician was again in a schizo for 15 days. What then became the reason for the recovery is unknown. “Alexei left the schizo on February 11, and today, the 14th, he was sent there again. Dali 15 days. This is the 27th schizo, and in total he will spend 308 days there, ”said the associate of the opposition Kira Yarmys **.