Navalny faces new fees over jail provocation: lawyer

A lawyer for Alexei Navalny says the Russian opposition determine faces the prospect of recent prison fees after in impact being compelled to interrupt the foundations of the utmost safety penal colony the place he’s being held.

Vadim Kobzev stated on Twitter {that a} foul-smelling inmate with poor hygiene had been positioned in Navalny’s cell on Monday in a “provocation” whereas he was doing jail labour, and that Navalny had had no alternative on returning however to pull him out.

He had then been advised he could be charged with thwarting jail authorities, which carries a most sentence of 5 years, Kobzev stated.

The penitentiary service, which has previously denied allegations of mistreatment, didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

Navalny is already serving 11 and half years within the IK-6 penal colony, about 240km east of Moscow, on fraud and contempt of court docket fees that he says have been trumped as much as silence him.

Final Thursday, his spokeswoman stated he was struggling extreme abdomen ache and that she feared that he had been given poison.

Two days earlier he had stated on his Twitter account, run by his associates, that he had been moved again into solitary confinement and compelled to endure “hellish” circumstances.

Kobzev stated it was Navalny’s thirteenth spell in a punishment cell since his arrest in 2021 after getting back from Germany, the place he had been recovering from being poisoned in Russia with what overseas specialists stated was a Soviet-era nerve toxin.

The Kremlin denied duty.

Navalny first got here to prominence by drawing consideration to the wealth of senior officers in a collection of broadly watched movies.

For a time he was in a position to channel public dissatisfaction with Vladimir Putin, Russia’s unchallenged chief for the final 23 years.

However his Anti-Corruption Basis has been outlawed as “extremist,” its different leaders have gone into exile and all vital public political dissent has been suppressed by the Kremlin.

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