Imprisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny complains of increasing back pain due to the constant solitary confinement. “You lock someone up in an isolated punishment cell where he or she can stand or sit on an iron stool for 16 hours a day. In a month, under these conditions, even a healthy person’s back will hurt,” the opposition politician said through his social networks on Monday.
He himself has been in solitary confinement almost constantly for three months. The prison doctor examined him, but after repeated requests did not tell him the diagnosis, Navalny continued. Since the injections she prescribed didn’t help either, he eventually asked for a copy of his medical record, which he was only given in an illegible state. He will now complain that he can “read” his medical records, the opposition politician said.
Serves detention in penal colony 6 in Melekhovo
Due to alleged fraud, Navalny is in Penal Colony 6 in Melekhovo, about 160 miles northeast of Moscow – under particularly harsh prison conditions. In May, a court upheld the nine-year prison sentence. Internationally, he is regarded as a political prisoner and the fiercest critic of Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin. Navalny had recovered from a poison attack in Germany in August 2020, but then voluntarily returned to Russia and has been in prison ever since.
Source: Krone
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