Jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny says prison administrators have placed a roommate in his punitive cell as a way of imposing psychological pressure on him. Navalny said in a series of posts on Twitter on December 12 that officials have put what inmates call an imp, "an inmate who has a big problem with personal hygiene," with him where they live 24 hours a day within arm's reach of each other. Navalny said that after officials failed to break him with punitive confinement several times since mid-August, it chose another method: "to put a hobo in his cell." To read the original story by RFE/RL's Russian Service, click here.
Navalny Says Prison Officials Pressuring Him By Placing 'Hobo' In His Punitive Cell
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