Moscow August 25, : Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said that he was transferred to an isolation unit in the penal colony in which he is held in a solitary cell, blaming Russian authorities for this move.In a statement posted on Twitter on Wednesday he stated that authorities had justified the decision by stating that he was not able to hold his hands behind his back for just three seconds while walking through the camp, the dpa news agency reported.
“The directive clearly came from Moscow.Even according to the standards of the Russian prison, sending a person to the punishment cell for three seconds with hands behind their backs is way too for a small amount,” he tweeted.
His plan to create an organization of workers from inside the prison also upset the authorities last week.
Navalny stated that he was already in the cell which measured 2.5 by 3 meters, the previous week, allegedly due to he was unable to button an piece of clothing.
He tweeted: “Here I sit once again in my dreadful closet with an mug and a book.It’s sort of boring, of course.I think I should learn to meditate.”
He is serving time for fraud, but is widely viewed as a bid to disarm one of the Kremlin’s loudest opponents.
He is currently being held in Penal Colony 6 in Melekhovo about 260 kilometers north-east of Moscow in particularly difficult conditions.
The Russian judiciary is widely viewed as being ruled by the Kremlin and has been criticized for its arbitrarily ruled decisions by human rights advocates.
Navalny barely escaped a plot to inflict poison on his body with the chemical agent Novichok in August 2020.
For this, he blames the Russian president Vladimir Putin.
