Alexey Navalny died in the Russian penal colony IK-3 in Charp in the Arctic Circle. Inmates who survived speak of a dark time in prison.

“You can actually only die” – this is how cruelly the torture is carried out in the “Polarwolf” Navalny prison camp. In the summer, prisoners are said to be forced to undress to the waist amid swarms of mosquitoes in the summer. The area in the far north of the country is “God-forsaken,” said the long-time ARD correspondent in Russia, Thomas Roth.