Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has complained of being poisoned, assaulted and deprived of proper medical care, but on Monday he disclosed he faced a new challenge: being forced to listen to a pro-Putin pop singer at 0500 every morning. Navalny, 47, a former lawyer who rose to prominence more than a decade ago by lampooning President Vladimir Putin's elite and voicing allegations of vast corruption, is currently in a jail about 60 km (40 miles) north of the Arctic Circle. Sentenced to stay in prison until he is 74 on charges he says were trumped up to keep him out of politics, Navalny said his morning regime now consisted of listening to the Russian national anthem before being played "I am Russian," a patriotic song performed by a pro-Putin singer called "Shaman".

(Reuters) - Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has complained of being poisoned, assaulted and deprived of proper medical care, but on Monday he disclosed he faced a new challenge: being forced to listen to a pro-Putin pop singer at 0500 every morning.

Navalny, 47, a former lawyer who rose to prominence more than a decade ago by lampooning President Vladimir Putin’s elite and voicing allegations of vast corruption, is currently in a jail about 60 km (40 miles) north of the Arctic Circle.

Sentenced to stay in prison until he is 74 on charges he says were trumped up to keep him out of politics, Navalny said his morning regime now consisted of listening to the Russian national anthem before being played “I am Russian,” a patriotic song performed by a pro-Putin singer called “Shaman”.

  • @qooqieEnglish
    43•10 months ago

    I feel bad that this guy essentially martyr’d himself and I don’t really think it’s done anything to change Russian discourse. That being said this punishment is wild and something I would genuinely laugh at if it was happening in places like Guantanamo bay

    • @EvergreenGuruEnglish
      23•10 months ago

      Wait, wasn’t Guantanamo Bay where the US tortured a bunch of innocent people? You’d have to be a sick/sadistic psychopath to laugh at crimes against humanity.

      • @qooqieEnglish
        29•10 months ago

        I was laughing at the thought of music being used, not the entire compound. But as someone linked an article explaining how much worse it is, I retract my statement of amusement ☹️

        • LucasWaffyWafEnglish
          5•10 months ago

          I know of at least one band whose music has been reportedly used in Gitmo for torture purposes. Skinny Puppy’s album Weapon was written in response to that, and the band billed the US government $666,000 for the unlicensed usage of their music.

    • theprogressivist English
      21•10 months ago

      I mean, the US government used Metallica’s music to torture POWs.

      • @qooqieEnglish
        5•10 months ago

        No fucking way lmao what a wild additional punishment

        • @captainlezbianEnglish
          21•10 months ago

          It was at literal deafening volumes. And combined with other forms of psychological torture.

          They also used children’s music, also at volumes that osha demands hearing protection for

          • @qooqieEnglish
            3•10 months ago

            Oh ☹️… it’s way worse than I thought

            • @humorlessrepostEnglish
              2•10 months ago

              Yeah, the Meow Mix TV commercial song should be banned by the Geneva Convention.