Alexei Navalny was sent to a detention center for the 15th time

Opposition Russian politician Alexei Navalny, who is serving time in a prison in the Vladimir Region, was placed in a detention center for the fifteenth time — the morning after he left there.

“Yesterday at 8:00 p.m. I was released from the SHIZO. Today at 9:30 a.m. I am back in the SHIZO. “Convicted Navalny does not lend himself to educational work and does not make the necessary conclusions for himself.” Thus, my penal isolation counter jumped to 165 days.” – said the politician.

The penitentiary is distinguished by particularly harsh conditions of detention. Navalny described it as a cell measuring two by three meters, where he has to sit on an iron stool. He also said that there is boiling water and one book in the SHIZO, compared to an ordinary cell, where there is “coffee and two books.”

• In June 2022, Navalny was transferred from the general regime colony in Pokrovo to the strict regime colony in Melekhove. Navalny and his supporters consider the criminal prosecution to be political.
• In March 2023, supporters of the politician installed a copy of SHIZO at the Louvre in Paris. Previously, it was located at the Russian Embassy in Berlin. Since August 2022, Navalny spent more than a hundred days in such a cell, which, according to his lawyers, led to a sharp deterioration in his health.
• At the end of April, it became known that a case was opened against Alexei Navalny under the article on terrorism – he was separated from the already existing case under the article on extremism.