Vladimir Osechkin, founder of the human rights group Gulag.net, claimed that Russian authorities kept Alexey Navalny in an open-air solitary confinement cell in temperatures as low as -27°C (-16.6°F) for two and a half hours before executing him with a punch to the heart . Osechkin believes that Navalny's time in the extreme cold was intended to slow down and weaken his heartbeat