Russia's Supreme Court on November 11 rejected two lawsuits filed by imprisoned opposition politician Aleksei Navalny against the Justice Ministry over two of its internal regulations guiding correctional institutions, specifically a ban on having more than one book in punitive cells and a 15-minute limit for consuming food in prison cafeterias. A day earlier, another court rejected Navalny's suit against his placement in a punitive cell in October at his previous prison. Navalny said earlier this week that he had been sent to solitary confinement right after finishing a quarantine term at a harsher prison in Russia's Arctic region.
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