Jailed Alexei Navalny pressured to take heed to Putin speech for over 100 days in a row
Mr Navalny, 47, stated that jail officers have consistently performed the Russian president’s 1 hour and 46 minute-long state of the nation handle from February exterior his prison cell.
To mark the one hundredth day of being performed the speech, Mr Navalny tweeted that was instructed he must take heed to it all year long because it contained “instructions on educational work”.
Despite protests by the Putin critic, Mr Navalny stated guards responded by saying: “Once Putin makes his next annual address, then they’ll start playing it for us instead.”
In the speech made final February, Putin repeated his declare that the “special military operation” was conducted in order to rid Ukraine of a “neo-Nazi regime”.
Putin went additional to assert Russia had achieved every part attainable to “solve the problem by peaceful means”, including: “We were patient, we were negotiating a peaceful way out of this difficult conflict, but a completely different scenario was being prepared behind our backs.”
Mr Navalny was first arrested in 2021 after returning to Russia from Germany the place he was recovering from a poison assault. He is serving a nine-year time period on an embezzlement cost.
The opposition chief is being held at a maximum-security penal colony at Melekhovo and appeared in court docket final month, facing new allegations of creating an extremist organisation. If found guilty, he could be jailed for up to 30 years.
In a ruling earlier this 12 months, the European Court of Human Rights discovered that Russia had “notably” failed to research Mr Navalny’s 2020 poisoning.
The court docket stated Russia had failed “to explore the allegations of a possible political motive for the attempted murder, as well as possible involvement of state agents.”