Navalny Placed in Solitary Confinement for 15th Time, Says Lawyer

Alexei Navalny, the jailed Kremlin critic, has been returned to solitary confinement for the 15th time since his imprisonment in 2021. Navalny is serving a nine-year prison sentence on charges he and his allies call politically motivated. The reason given for his return to solitary confinement was a failure to "submit to correctional work" and "draw the right conclusions for himself." The UN has called on the Russian government to urgently provide Navalny with "comprehensive" medical care and warned that his repeated placement in solitary confinement could amount to torture.