Navalny in solitary confinement for five days because ‘for three seconds he didn’t have his hands behind his back’

Russian politician Alexei Navalny, who is serving a sentence in Prison Colony No. 6 in the city of Melekhovo in the Vladimir region, has been placed in solitary confinement again, this time for five days. This development was reported by Navalny himself in a post on Telegram.

“They take me to isolation through the corridor: “Hands behind the back”, “mmm I say”, I put the hands behind the back. Somewhere three seconds I went as usual. Without hands behind the back. I committed a crime. They call me to the commission and they say to me: “Convicted Navalny, you violated the escort regulations in solitary confinement. In the video it looks like this lasted three seconds. But as you have a negative record and have already been put in solitary confinement, we have decided that you should be put in solitary confinement.”

“5 days. It’s so funny. I’ll settle here please. The hint clearly comes from Moscow. Even by Russian prison measures in solitary confinement because I didn’t have my hands behind my back for three seconds, it’s too much,” he wrote Navalny.

On August 15, Navalny was placed in solitary confinement by order of the prison administration because he “systematically unbuttoned the top button of his uniform.” According to the Russian politician, the prisoners in the isolation cell are prohibited from correspondence, visits, receipt of cigarettes and smoking. They give you paper and pencil for an hour and 15 minutes a day, and a walk for an hour a day “in such a cell, which sees a piece of the sky”, “all the time there are searches and hands behind the back”.

Source: AMPE