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Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been moved to a single cell, according to a post on his social media account.
According to a post on his Instagram account, Mr Navalny was placed in solitary confinement, also known as a “punishment cell”, on Nov. 1, but only for 15 days.
His new incarceration, he said, was “a normal cramped cell, like a punishment cell, except you could only have one book instead of two, and use a prison kiosk, albeit on a very limited budget”.
The 46-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent foe is serving a nine-year sentence in a high-security prison 250 kilometers (150 miles) east of Moscow.
He was arrested on his return from Germany in January 2021 while recovering from a nerve agent poisoning, which he blamed on the Kremlin.
Mr Navalny, who was sentenced to two-and-a-half years for breaching parole, was sentenced to nine years this year for fraud and contempt of court.
He has denied that the charges are politically motivated – a position backed by Western countries – and Russian authorities are trying to keep him behind bars for as long as possible, out of politics.
Before his latest jail term, Mr Navalny was behind an anti-corruption website that exposed alleged misconduct by senior Russian officials.
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