Jailed Russian dissident, Alexei Navalny, says he is being tortured in prison. Deutsche Welle reported this development in Russia:

One of the lawyers for Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny said Thursday that the jailed Kremlin critic told her he has been subject to sleep deprivation by guards and considers the treatment in a Russian penal colony to be “torture.”

Navalny told lawyers that he is woken eight times per night by guards announcing to a recording camera that he is still in his cell. He is considered a flight risk by prison authorities. 

“Essentially I am being tortured through sleep deprivation,” Navalny said in a formal complaint released by his lawyers.

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