will have to stay in a Russian prison despite allegations that he's being tortured by prison guards.
Navalny has complained that he was wakened by guards every hour of the night during his stay at the IK-2 corrective penal colony so they could film him and report his presence at the prison to officially verify his location. Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny appears on screen via a video link from prison during a court hearing on May 26. On Wednesday, a judge ruled Navalny would have to remain in prison despite allegations of torture.The 44-year-old opposition leader is currently at a different prison facility with a hospital but is expected to return to IK-2. He was moved after he went on a hunger strike in late March in an effort to demand better medical care for acute leg and back pain he was suffering.
Navalny is bringing two other legal challenges against the prison. One is an attempt to stop the prison from censoring the newspapers he receives, which he says have had articles cut out before he gets to read them.