Alexei Navalny denounced he was tortured because of sleep deprivation

Russian opponent imprisoned Alexei Navalny reported to the security services that his jailers deprived him of sleep at night, which is equivalent to a “tortureAccording to the text of the letter published on its website this Thursday.

The gardians “They keep me from sleeping, it’s actually sleep deprivation torture,” writes the dissident, who assures in his letter that They wake him up “eight times a night”.

Navalny, the opponent to the president Vladimir Poutine better known, suffers “Severe pain” in the back and left leg, said for his part his lawyer, who assured that he fears for the life of his client.

“For me, his state of health is of course extremely problematic (…) everyone fears for his life and his health”, the lawyer told Russian opposition channel Dojd, Olga Mijailova, that he was finally able to meet the opponent in the penal colony where he is serving his sentence.

Navalny, who is serving a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence, survived a poisoning he attributes to the Kremlin last year.

The lawyer felt that there may be a link between his current health problems and his poisoning.

The prison services (FSIN) in the region near Moscow where he is being held reacted on Thursday by declaring that medical examinations were carried out at the request of detainees and that Navalny’s state of health is “Considered stable and satisfactory”.

Ibuprofen only

For his part, the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, assured that the presidency “does not follow” the situation and “He didn’t ask for any information” on Navalny’s health.

Back in Russia last January, after five months of convalescence in Germany for poisoning, Nalvalny was immediately arrested and convicted of a fraud case dating from 2014, which he, NGOs and several Western countries consider to be political.

The main opponent of the president Vladimir Poutine He has been held since early March in a penal colony in Pokrov, 100 km east of Moscow, known as one of the most difficult in Russia.

Mikhailova told the AFP that a neurologist examined the opponent for his back pain and leg problem, but that he just gave him ibuprofen tablets, an analgesic and anti-inflammatory drug.

Volkov estimated that the prison administration could try to hide a possible transfer of the opponent to the infirmary.

Since arriving in Pokrov, Navalny posted two posts on Instagram with a mocking and optimistic tone.

In the first, he said that the prison administration had managed to surprise him: “I didn’t think that a concentration camp could be built 100 km from Moscow ”, wrote the activist.

In the second, he compared his routine as an inmate to that of a Stormtrooper, the Imperial soldiers of the Star Wars saga, due to the rigid discipline of exercise in the yard and brisk walking.

Navalny fell into a coma last August in Siberia. After his evacuation to Germany, several European laboratories estimated that he had been poisoned with Novichok, a nerve agent developed in Soviet times for military use.

But Moscow has always rejected these conclusions which prove the thesis of an assassination attempt orchestrated by the Russian power. No investigation has been opened in Russia.

Navalny accuses Putin of ordering this assassination attempt, which the Kremlin insists on rejecting.

The European Union, the United States and Canada have adopted sanctions against senior Russian officials after the poisoning.

(With information from AFP)

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