The facility housing Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny, described by one former convict as “inhumane” and “real hell,” is more like a “scout camp” than a jail. That’s according to Maria Butina, a former prisoner herself.
Butina, who visited the prison colony near Moscow on Thursday, was found guilty in 2018 of acting as an unregistered foreign agent in the US. After almost a year in pre-trial detention, she spent five months in a Federal Correctional Institution in Tallahassee, a minimum-security prison in Florida, before being deported to Moscow. Her visit to see Navalny, accompanied by cameras from RT’s Russian service, has been slammed by his supporters, with the opposition figure himself branding her a “propagandist” and a “parasite.”
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