Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has shared letters showing how he mocked prison authorities with bizarre requests for a massage chair, a kimono and the names of the guard dogs, among other things.
Alexei Navalny is serving combined sentences of 11 and a half years for fraud and contempt of court.The requests were turned down by the maximum security prison authorities.
The requests were turned down by the maximum security IK-6 penal colony at Melekhovo, about 250 km east of Moscow, according to the Russian documents he posted online."When you are in a punishment cell and don't have much entertainment, you can always amuse yourself by corresponding with the prison administration," Mr Navalny said.Mr Navalny is serving combined sentences of 11-1/2 years for fraud and contempt of court on charges that he says were trumped up to silence him.
The correspondence also reveals the conditions of the Russian prison system: Mr Navalny asked for a megaphone to be given to a mentally ill convict in a cell opposite so that "he could shout even louder", and for prison authorities to award the 10th dan in Karate to a prisoner who apparently killed a man with his bare hands.
In response to Mr Navalny's request for a permit to keep a kangaroo, the prison wrote: "The animal identified in your request relates to the double crested-marsupial... Your request is left without satisfaction."
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