They condemn that Alexei Navalny was kept in solitary confinement in his prison in the Russian Arctic

Imprisoned Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, recently transferred to a penal colony in the Arcticannounced on Tuesday that he had been placed in isolation again for a week.

He arrived at this detention center located in Yamalia-Nenetsia At the end of December, after a long transfer during which no news was received from his relatives, which caused fear abroad.

His supporters say Russian authorities are trying to further isolate him in the run-up to the March presidential election, which Vladimir Putin looks set to win in advance.

On Tuesday, Navalny announced on social media that he had been subjected to “seven days of solitary confinement”. For not being properly identified.

Similarly, he decried the conditions in which they are kept, having to get up first around 6:30 am, to enjoy the few rays of the sun and the freezing temperature of -31 degrees Celsius.

“Eleven steps from the wall and three towards the wall. Not much to walk, but at least it’s something, so I go for a walk,” he wrote. “It’s only possible to walk for more than half an hour if you have time to grow a nose.” , ears and fingers.” New”.

“Today I went for a walk, I was paralyzed and thinking about Leonardo DiCaprio and his character’s dead horse trick in the movie ‘The Revenant’. I don’t think it would have worked here. A dead horse dies in about 15 minutes,” he noted sarcastically.

Navalny’s entourage reported that the adversary’s whereabouts were unknown for nearly three weeks because he was consistently absent from court hearings. Russian authorities confirmed his transfer from Vladimir region on December 15, but ten days later his whereabouts were not clear.

47-year-old terrorist, Enemy number one of the Russian Presidentis serving a 19-year prison sentence for “extremism”.

He was arrested in January 2021 upon his safe return to Germany from Russia, blamed the Kremlin for the poisoning, and has since spent time in solitary confinement, alternating with more or less strict detention conditions.

Kira Irmich, his spokeswoman, said it was his twenty-fourth stay in isolation, out of a total of 273 days.

The colony where it is currently located, nicknamed “Polar wolf”, an institution inherited from the Soviet Gulag.

The opponent published a photo of a small fenced prison yard in which he can walk very early in the morning, when the temperature is very low.

Navalny has been behind bars in Russia since January 2021, when he returned to Moscow after recovering from nerve agent poisoning in Germany that he blamed on the Kremlin. Before his arrest, he campaigned against government corruption and organized large anti-Kremlin protests.

In December, the The Russian Election Commission refused This Candidacy for Presidential election From a journalist and former municipal councillor Yekaterina DuntsovaFor which fight Democracy and the end of aggression in Ukraine.

The commission alleged “Errors in Documentation” Presented for candidacy registration, indicates Russian Television

President of the Commission, Alla Pamfilova, announced that the organization had unanimously decided to reject the 40-year-old woman’s candidacy for the upcoming elections in March. It is given in it President Vladimir Putin’s victory is certainIn power since 1999, and is expected to win another six-year term.

“You are a young woman, and you have your life ahead of you,” Pamfilova declared to the candidate.

(With information from AFP and Europa Press)