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«Yesterday at eight o’clock in the evening I was released from the isolation cell. I’ll be back today at 9:30 am,” Navalny tweeted to his team on Thursday. He has already spent a total of 165 days in the small room of two by three meters, where conditions are particularly harsh. Prisoners cannot buy extra food or receive visits from relatives.
The 46-year-old’s supporters have long complained about Navalny’s deteriorating health. They are also convinced that the reasons why he has been placed in solitary confinement repeatedly since last summer have only been put forward to torture him psychologically and break his will.
The Special Rapporteur to the UN High Commissioner on Inhumane Treatment, Alice Jill Edwards, also described the continued isolation as a form of torture. “I am concerned about Mr Navalny’s deteriorating health and apparent lack of satisfactory diagnosis and medical treatment,” she said.
For more than two years, Navalny has been held in a prison camp about 160 miles northeast of Moscow, known for its harsh prison conditions. He was convicted of alleged fraud by a Russian court, but the prominent opponent of Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin is internationally regarded as a political prisoner.
(SDA)
Source: Blick
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