“All is well”: Alexeï Navalny gives his news from his cell

Alexeï Navalny, sentenced in February to two and a half years in prison and currently imprisoned, assured Wednesday, March 3, 2021, from his cell that he was “fine” in a message on Instagram. ” Everything’s going well for me. There is even a pull-up bar in the yard, ”he wrote on this social network, adding that he was currently in a detention center in the Vladimir region, east of Moscow, near Moscow. the penal colony where he is to be sent. “I do not receive letters at the moment and I know even less what is going on in the world than when I was in Moscow”, said the opponent who had been imprisoned in the Russian capital since his arrest in January, before being transferred to the center where he is now.

Alexeï Navalny ensures that he is entertained by making rusks on a radiator with two other prisoners, an “exciting activity”. It was not immediately known how he had been able to disseminate this message on Instagram from his cell, his lawyer Olga Mikhaïlova, contacted by Agence France-Presse, having refused to comment on this subject. “Ask me more questions,” she just said.

Alexeï Navalny “is doing well”

According to Olga Mikhailova, who visited the opponent in the Vladimir region, Alexei Navalny “is doing well” and “he is placed in a quarantine cell with two other people”, pending his transfer to a penal colony . This transfer must be made if the Russian justice rejects the last appeal of the opponent, sentenced in February to two and a half years of imprisonment.

Activist denouncing corruption, known for his investigations into the fortunes of Russian elites, Alexeï Navalny returned to Russia in January from convalescence in Germany after a poisoning for which he holds President Vladimir Putin responsible. He was arrested on his arrival and is now facing his first long prison term in nearly a decade of run-ins with the authorities.


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