Opposition politician Aleksei Navalny’s deteriorating health was reported yesterday. Navalnyi has fallen ill with a serious fever.
Several Russian doctors have signed the Russian president to Vladimir Putin an open letter addressed to defending an opposition politician To Alexei Navalny the right to treatment in prison.
Russian Meduzan (you switch to another service) according to the letter, one hundred doctors have signed it.
The letter says that Navalny’s appearance and the conditions in which the prisoner is being held raise concerns among doctors.
The doctors are also worried about the fulfillment of Navalny’s human rights, as the prison employees do not agree to cooperate with the health authorities.
On Monday, Navanyi’s lawyer said on Twitter that Navalnyi has fallen ill with a serious fever.
According to the lawyer (you will switch to another service) attempts have been made to supply him with medicine. The link takes you to a tweet in Russian.
In an open letter drawn up by doctors, it is stated that Navalny’s life may be in danger because the prison workers have refused to pass on the medicines delivered to the prisoner.
– We demand: Stop torturing Navalny, stop keeping Navalny in solitary confinement and give him permission to see doctors and receive treatment, the letter states.
Navalny’s assistant Kira Jarmyš said on Monday on Twitter, that in prison (you transfer to another service) there is an epidemic of influenza, and the authorities deliberately put a sick prisoner in the same cell with Navalny.
On Navalny’s account, Navalny was said to have been put in solitary confinement again on Monday because he had washed his face “at the wrong time”.
The leader of the Russian opposition is serving a sentence of more than ten years in a maximum security prison near the city of Vladmir.
Navalny is kept in solitary confinement almost constantly, which is why the Russian opposition figure’s health has deteriorated significantly, his team has said.
Navalny’s daughter, 21 years old Daria Navalnaya wrote a defense speech on behalf of his father in December. The article was published In the Times magazine (you will switch to another service).
According to Navalnaya, Alexei Navalny is constantly in solitary confinement because he condemns Putin’s war in Ukraine and opposes the regime whenever he gets the chance.
– My father uses every trial as an opportunity to criticize the war, an anti-war statement.
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