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.
Navalny’s attempt to appeal his recent 19-year sentence in high-security prison on extremism charges failed on Tuesday. Ahead of the appeal hearing, Navalny was sent to solitary confinement for the 20th time since his sentence began.
