Alexei Navalny calls Vladimir Putin a criminal and goes to Russian solitary confinement

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Alexej Navalny is connected via video from prison during a court hearing

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Jailed in Russia, Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was again transferred to solitary confinement after he criticized the partial mobilization ordered by President Vladimir Putin.

"I didn't like what I said about the mobilization - so you get twelve days (carceration), Navalny!" said the opposition figure during a court hearing, according to the Internet portal "Mediazona".

In a hearing on Wednesday, he accused Putin of "implicating hundreds of thousands in his crimes" by sending them to war against Ukraine.

This is the fifth time in a row that Navalny has been sent to the isolation cell.

The 46-year-old emphasized that he did not want to be intimidated by this.

He therefore repeated his allegations against Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin.

"Putin is tying up hundreds of thousands with blood, his mobilizations and 'referendums'," criticized the opposition politician.

Alexei Navalny has been in prison since 2021 after returning to his homeland after a failed poison attack against him.

According to Amnesty International, the Russian opposition figure, who was sentenced to nine years in prison for alleged fraud, has been denied confidential communications with his lawyer, among other things.

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