France, March 17 -- The support team of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny have installed a small concrete box marked with the word SHIZO (meaning punishment cell in Russian) behind the Louvre Museum in Paris, to try and raise awareness over his dire conditions of detention.

The grey box measuring 3 metres by 2 metres is a mock-up of the SHIZO punishment prison cellwhere Navalny has spent more than 100 days since he was transferred to the Melekhovo penal colony in June 2022.

Inside the dimly lit box is a little washbasin, a toilet on the ground and a simple bed, which is folded away during the day.

His team call it "a prison inside a prison".

"We launched the project because we realised that when we want to explain to the West what a Russi...