‘Psychological violence’: Alexei Navalny says he is forced to watch eight hours of state TV a day

Russian opposition leader tells of brainwashing and propaganda in jail but remains optimistic Putin regime will end sooner or later'

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has given his first interview from prison, comparing it to a Chinese labor camp and saying he is forced to watch eight hours of state television a day.

Navalny, who built his political career on exposing corruption in Russia, is being held in a maximum security prison colony in Pokrov, 100km east of Moscow.