The jailed Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny has been placed in a high-security prison cell in what is essentially a prison within a prison, the politician announced on social media on Wednesday.
Navalny, who is serving two sentences on politically motivated charges of embezzlement and extremism in a penal colony in Melekhovo in central Russia’s Vladimir region, said that he had been transferred to what he described as a “single cell-type room” for 12 months due to his “incorrigibility”.
“So I have a new prison cell and a new inscription on my back,” the politician wrote, adding he was now experiencing “the strictest possible punishment in all kinds of prisons” in Russia.