Which language would you like to use this site in?Document Language Albanian Amharic Arabic Armenian Aymara Azerbaijani Belarusian Bengali Bosnian Brazilian Portuguese Bulgarian Burmese Catalan Cebuano Chinese Croatian Czech Danish Dari Dutch English Esperanto Estonian Filipino Finnish French Georgian German Greek Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malagasy Malay Malayalam Maldivian Mapudungun Maya Moldavian Mongolian Nepali Oriya Oromo Pashto Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Qeqchi Quechua Rapanui Romanian Romany Rundi Russian Serbian Sinhalese Slovak Slovenian Somali Southern Sotho Spanish Swahili Swati Swedish Tagalog Tajik Tamil Telugu Tetum Pisin Thaidinya Tharuk Chinese Turkish Turkmen Ukrainian Urdu Uyghur Uzbek Venda Vietnamese Xhosa Xinca ZuluMarie Struthers, Amnesty International's Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, said:“We have received deeply disturbing information about Aleksei Navalny’s increasingly harsh treatment in the strict regime penal colony where he is currently locked up.This includes severe penalties for purported offences, and repeated efforts to ostracize him from other prisoners who are reportedly not allowed to speak with or even look at him.In gross violation of his rights as well as Russia's own laws, Alexei Navalny is not allowed confidential meetings with his lawyer.His health and well-being are at grave risk, and this tantamounts to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.”“The Russian prison authorities are using the cruel methods they have been refining for years to try and break the spirit of Aleksei Navalny by making his existence in the penal colony unbearable, humiliating and dehumanizing.We demand the immediate and unconditional release of prisoner of conscience Alexei Navalny and accountability for all those responsible for his unlawful imprisonment and ill-treatment.”Russian prison authorities are using the cruel methods they have been refining for years to try and break the spirit of Aleksei Navalny by making his existence in the penal colony unbearable, humiliating and dehumanizingAleksei Navalny was transferred from penal colony IK-5 (Pokrov, Vladimir region) to another colony with a stricter security regime, IK-6 (Melekhovo, Vladimir region) on June 14 where his treatment by the administration and colony guards has become harsher , according to his lawyers.Since August 15, the colony administration has placed Aleksei Navalny in a punishment cell (shtrafnoy isolyator, or SHIZO, in Russian) four times, either citing minor infringements of prison rules, such as an unbuttoned button on his prison shirt or giving no explanations at all.While in SHIZO, Alexei Navalny is denied family visits, parcels and letters.The prisoner of conscience has also reportedly been labeled a "malicious violator" of the penal colony's regime and placed in "strict conditions of detention."It means, among other things, that he is allowed only four visits by relatives per year instead of six.In addition to the disciplinary measures against Aleksei Navalny, the colony's administration told him that they were stripping him of his right to have confidential communications with his lawyer.As a result, Aleksei Navalny must now communicate with his lawyer across an opaque plastic sheet, which makes it impossible for them to exchange or examine any documents.Aleksei Navalny's communication with other prisoners has reportedly been severely restricted: they are allegedly forbidden from talking to or even looking at him.According to reports from his colleagues and a Russian human rights activist, when Navalny passes by, an alarm is sounded which means prisoners must either turn away from Navalny or move away from the windows if the politician is close to them at that moment.If you are talented and passionate about human rights then Amnesty International wants to hear from you.