Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said today that prison officials ordered him to serve at least three days in solitary confinement for a minor misdemeanor in retaliation for his activism behind bars.
An announcement about the punishment appeared today on Navalny's social media account, where it says that those in solitary confinement are not allowed to have visitors, letters or packages.
The only things Navalny has at his disposal are "a cup and a book", and he gets pen and paper for a little over an hour a day.
Navalny, a political foe of President Vladimir Putin, was arrested in January 2021 after returning from Germany, where he was recovering from nerve agent poisoning blamed on the Kremlin.
He received a 2-year sentence for violating the terms of his parole while outside of Russia.
In March, Navalny was sentenced to nine years in prison on charges of fraud and contempt of court, charges he dismissed as a politically motivated attempt by Russian authorities to keep him behind bars as long as possible.
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