Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Tuesday that officials at the Arctic penal colony where he is serving a 19-year sentence have isolated him in a tiny punishment cell over a minor infraction, the latest step designed to ramp up pressure on President Vladimir Putin's fiercest political foe. Navalny said in a social media statement relayed from behind bars that prison officials accused him of refusing to “introduce himself in line with protocol” and ordered him to serve seven days in a punishment cell.
cohen dealing with our firm. jesse: again, prosecutors are playing games. bragg s other star witness is a porn actress stormy daniels remember back in 2018 when stormy said she never had an affair with trump but then went out on the media tour with her hand out? by the way, last year? remember, judge ordered stormy to pay trump 300 grand after tried suing him for defamation. trump paid stormy actually, no, stormy paid trump. and stormy s lawyer michael avenatti sentenced to prison for stealing from clients. these are the credible people this whole case is based off. even the establishment media isn t sold on this case. the new york times today, points out that slick wily, sleeping with the intern, set a precedent that democrats aren t even following. quote: clinton scandal established a general principle that presidents are above the law, minor infraction, covering up tawdry sex. if a potential trump prosecution
involved,ing know inyou know, homicide or assault with a firearm. so, he was given an extreme break at the beginning. he s allowed to leave the jail and go on house arrest pending sentence. he was not given the mandatory minimum of five years. he essentially got a nonprison sentence for what most people would consider a very serious offense involving guns and drugs. he wasn t stalked by the system. you can t say that a man allowed to go to dubai and paradise island, bahamas, stalked by the system while on probation. and to say getting arrested multiple times while on probation say minor infraction. asking people on probation not to get arrested again is not really an extreme or repressive requirement. there has to be some consequences for folks on probation that break the law. and he broke the law. areva, go ahead and respond to that. if i may put this in the mix, i
handcuffs because he or she brought a pair of scissors to school. sounds crazy. but that s the kind of minor infraction that s entangling too many young people in the criminal justice system nationwide. in fact, as a result of zero-tolerance school policies, 260,000 children and teens were referred to law enforcement during the 2011 school year. and 3.1 million students were suspended or expelled. and the suspensions and expulsions disproportionately impact students of color. this year the obama administration issued guidelines discouraging this trend of criminalizing discipline. because these policies are proven to create the far greater likelihood that kids caught up in the system due to minor infractions at school are more likely to end up going to jail as adults, a phenomenon experts call the school-to-prison pipeline. just yesterday, president obama expanded the reach of his my brother s keeper program to address the crisis at the school level. as voices at the state and local lev