Russian man jailed for daughter’s anti-war drawing alleges prison dire conditions [Video]

MOSCOW –

Alexei Moskalyov, a Russian man jailed for two years for discrediting the army after his daughter drew an anti-war picture, alleged after his release on Tuesday that he had been held in dreadful conditions.

Moskalyov was greeted by his daughter, journalists and human right defenders after leaving a penal colony in Russia’s Tula region, video on social media showed.

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Moskalyov, still dressed in his prison uniform, told OVD-Info, a Russian human rights project, that he had spent two months in a punitive isolation cell, which he described as a “torture chamber.”

He said he and another man had spent time in a two-by-one metre cell with rotten floors in the extreme cold and described how huge rats had crawled inside.

“We were on our feet for 16 hours every day because the beds were fastened …