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Navalny says subjected to ‘educational activities’ in prison

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said Friday he was made to sit for hours under a portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin, as he described his daily routine in his new prison.

His allies including Leonid Volkov and Kira Yarmysh said his new routine was a form of “torture.”

Last month Putin’s top foe was transferred to a strict-regime penal colony described by his allies as “one of Russia’s scariest prisons”. He was taken there after his jail time was extended to nine years in March, in a move supporters say is punishment for challenging Putin.

Describing his life at the new prison, near the town of Vladimir east of Moscow, Navalny said he had to sew for seven hours five days a week.

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“After work, you continue to sit. For several hours on a wooden bench under a portrait of Putin,” he said in a post on Facebook.

“This is called ‘educational activities,’” he said. 

Navalny was made to sit on a wooden bench even on Sunday, his official day off.

“In the Putin administration, or wherever my unique routine was conceived, they know a thing or two about rest,” he quipped.

“On Sundays, we sit on a wooden bench in a room for 10 hours,” he added.

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“I don’t know who such activities can ‘educate’, except for a crooked invalid with a bad back,” he said. “But maybe that’s the purpose.”

Navalny has described his new jail as a “prison within a prison” and said he was serving time with convicted murderers. He said on Friday his prison barrack was surrounded by a six-metre fence. 

Despite his ordeal he said he tried to keep his chin up. 

“I am having fun as much as I can,” he said.

He added he had learnt a soliloquy from Hamlet at work. He said he was told by his fellow inmates that “when I close my eyes and mumble in Shakespearean English something like ‘in thy orisons be all my sins remembered’, it looks like I’m summoning demons.”

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In 2020, Navalny barely survived a poisoning attack with Novichok, a Soviet-designed military-grade nerve agent. He has blamed Russian authorities, but the Kremlin has denied any involvement.

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In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Boric stated that he made the decision “after discussing with the General Director of the Carabineros, the Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces, the Head of National Defense, and the Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, having also considered various alternatives and taking into account the needs of the ongoing investigation.”

He further detailed that “I have instructed to decree a curfew in the municipalities of Cañete, Contulmo, and Tirúa from midnight to 7:00 AM. Additionally, police and military presence will be intensified to our utmost capacity with joint patrols in the area.”

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Last Friday, before the 2024 Mexico City Series between the Astros and Rockies at Alfredo Harp Helú Stadium in Mexico City, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador met with representatives from both teams.

Through his social media, the President shared his interaction with executives from the Houston and Colorado teams, as well as with Astros’ Mexican pitcher, José Urquidy.

“Yesterday (Friday), before starting the tour, I had breakfast with executives and friends from the Houston Astros and the Colorado Rockies. There’s increasingly more baseball fever in our country,” López Obrador wrote.

The photos also featured former Mexican major leaguers Vinicio “Vinny” Castilla and Jorge de la Rosa, both of whom played for the Colorado team.

On Saturday night, the Houston Astros won the first game in the “capital inferno,” home of the Mexico City Red Devils, with a commanding score of 12 to 4.

This Sunday, the second game of the series will take place at AHH, with both teams arriving in Mexico on a losing streak. Another great Major League celebration is anticipated at the “fire diamond.”

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Social media star Om Fahad fatally shot in Baghdad

An Iraqi TikToker, previously sentenced to prison last year for posting content deemed “indecent” on social media, was fatally shot in Baghdad on Friday, according to two security officials.

Om Fahad, who had tens of thousands of followers on TikTok and Instagram, gained fame for her videos featuring her in tight outfits dancing to Iraqi music, in a country that is predominantly conservative and patriarchal.

The young woman was shot by an assailant on a motorcycle while she was in her vehicle outside her home in central Baghdad, two security officials reported anonymously to AFP.

In February 2023, a court initially sentenced Om Fahad to six months in jail for “publishing various videos with indecent intentions that violate modesty and public morals.”

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