Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny released excerpts of his correspondence with prison administrators Friday, detailing his sarcastic demands for things like a bottle of moonshine, a balalaika and even a kangaroo. His requests were denied.
released excerpts of his correspondence with prison administrators Friday, detailing his sarcastic demands for things like a bottle of moonshine, a balalaika and even a kangaroo. His requests were denied.
Responses from prison officials, posted on his social media account apparently by his team, came after he has spent almost 180 days in solitary confinement since last summer at Penal Colony No. 6 in the Vladimir region east of Moscow., 46, is serving a nine-year sentence after being convicted of fraud and contempt of court - charges he says were trumped up for his efforts to expose official corruption and organizing anti-Kremlin protests.
“When you are sitting in a punishment isolation cell and have little entertainment, you can have fun with correspondence with the administration,” wroteAmong his denied requests: a megaphone to be given to the prisoner in a nearby cell “so he can yell even louder,” and to award another inmate who “killed a man with his bare hands” with the highest rank in karate.
He also was turned down for his requests of moonshine, tobacco for rolling cigarettes and the balalaika. But expressed particular mock outrage at the administrators’ refusal to allow him to keep a kangaroo in his cell. The politician said inmates can to have a pet if the prison administration allows it.
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