DAILY STAR
Inmates at the jail where Vladimir Putin‘s rival Alexei Navalny died have shared what it’s like to live in the barbaric prison.
The lock-up, known as IK-3, Correctional Facility Number 3 or ‘Arctic Wolf’ prison thanks to its frosty exterior, has a fearsome reputation and houses some of Russia‘s most infamous lags. Following Navalny’s death on Friday (February 16) former inmates told Russian news outlet Meduza about some of the horrific things they endured during their sentences.
One ex-lag said he once swallowed a metal razor to protest “illegal” staff behaviour, but claims he was denied medical attention afterward. He said: “The surgeon refused all my requests for hospitalisation, even though I developed inflammation. I almost ended up disabled.”
And he wasn’t the only one who didn’t receive the treatment they needed. “There were cases where a person went to the med unit and said, ‘I feel pressure and my heart hurts,'” he added. “They’d give him an analgin pill and one day of bed rest. And in the morning the person wouldn’t wake up because he’d thrown a blood clot.”
