Inside the hellish arctic prison where Alexei Navalny met his death

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Inside the hellish arctic prison where Alexei Navalny met his death
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Prisoners are made to stand outside without coats and those who fail to stand sill are then doused with cold water.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny spent the last weeks of his life in the IK-3 prison camp The prison where Putin’s fiercest critic Alexei Navalny was sent is one of the strictest penal colony in the world. The IK-3 prison camp, nicknamed the Polar Wolf, is located in the Yamalo-Nenets region well above the Arctic Circle. This makes conditions harsh and unforgiving as temperatures drop below -20.

On New Year’s Day, he said: ‘It goes like any other day: wake-up is at 05:00, bedtime at 21:00. So for the first time since I was six years old, I just slept the entire New Year’s Eve. ‘Overall I’m pleased. People pay money to celebrate the New Year in an unusual way, but I did it for free.’ In January 2023 he wrote about the his cellmate who had severe mental health problems.

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