Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has vowed to continue a hunger strike despite suffering from a heavy cough and fever as he claimed inmates in his Russian prison ward were being treated in hospital for tuberculosis. Vladimir Putin’s biggest opponent has vowed to continue a hunger strike he launched last week demanding adequate medical treatment at … Read more
Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny must serve his sentence in a penal facility where ‘torture-like’ conditions are so horrific inmates have severely injured themselves to avoid being sent there, a former prisoner has claimed. Navalny, a prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin, was jailed this month over alleged parole violations related to an embezzlement … Read more
Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has been moved to an undisclosed detention centre outside Moscow that may be a prison camp, his lawyer and a member of a rights organisation said today. Navalny, a prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin, was jailed this month over alleged parole violations related to an embezzlement case he … Read more
Court jails young Russians for ‘plotting to overthrow Putin’: Activists are sentenced to up to seven years in a penal colony in case which has sparked protests and accusations police have overstepped their powers Ruslan Kostylenkov, Pyotr Karamzin and Vyacheslav Kryukov were sentenced In 2018 authorities detained 10 people, accusing them of belonging to the New Greatness … Read more