‘Concentration camp’: Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny decries jail

Russian opposition leader says he is woken up every hour of the night and filmed by a prison guard.

Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny, who is serving a two-and-half-year jail term in a penal colony outside Moscow, said on Monday he was locked up in a “real concentration camp”. His comments were the first confirmation of widespread reports the Russian opposition figure would be spending his sentence at the IK-2 prison colony in Pokrov in the Vladimir region, 85km (53 miles) east of Moscow, which stands out among Russian penitentiary facilities for its particularly strict regime. “I have to admit that the Russian prison system has managed to surprise me. I never imagined that it was possible to build a real concentration camp 100km from Moscow,” Navalny posted on Instagram along with an old photo of himself with a close-cropped haircut.