The arrested Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says he has been transferred to a punishment cell for the third time this month. The reason given for the seven-day solitary confinement was that he introduced himself incorrectly, according to the Twitter account of President Vladimir Putin’s critic.
“The fact is, I’m ‘too politically active to be a prisoner,'” he said of his lawyers there on Tuesday. “The prisoner union I founded is a source of great irritation: ‘We didn’t put him in prison to be here forming trade unions'”.
According to his own statements, Navalny was also put in a punishment cell on August 15 and 24 for minor violations of prison rules.
