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The imprisoned Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny has filed a lawsuit against his prison for having withheld the Koran.
Navalny said on Tuesday that he wanted to read the Muslims' holy scriptures while he was in prison.
He has been on a hunger strike for two weeks to protest the authorities' refusal to allow his doctor to examine him.
According to his own statements, he suffers from severe pain in his back and legs.
He said on Instagram that his first lawsuit against prison officials had to do with the Koran.
“You don't give me my Koran.
And that pisses me off, ”explained Navalny.
A thorough study of the Koran is one of his goals for "self-improvement", which he set for himself in prison.
So far, he has not received any of the books that he brought with him or ordered over the past month because they all have to be “inspected for extremism”.
According to official information, this will take three months.
That's why he filed a lawsuit.
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The 44-year-old Navalny is one of the sharpest critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
He was arrested on January 17th after returning from Germany.
There he had been treated with a neurotoxin for five months for an attack for which he blamed the Kremlin.
The Kremlin rejected that.
His arrest on his return was officially justified by the fact that his stay in Germany had violated probation conditions.
These came from a 2014 embezzlement conviction that Navalny had invented and the European Court of Human Rights ruled unlawful.
On his return, Navalny was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for violating suspended sentences.
In March he was transferred to a penal colony known for its particularly tough regiment in the Vladimir region, 85 kilometers east of Moscow.