The situation of Alexei Navalny “It is fundamental, we are all very worried,” denounced Ruslan Shaveddinov, a close friend of the Russian opposition leader who is in prison on Friday after being sentenced to 9 years. The team of him expressed fears that the politician is on course poisoned again since he lost eight kilos of weight.
He said Navalni felt a severe stomach ache on Friday evening. “We understood that the situation must have been very serious because they called an ambulance,” he remarked, adding that the prison authorities refused to admit him to hospital.
Since then, Shaveddinov added, there have been no updates on his health conditions, because “the prison authorities are doing everything possible to isolate him”, added the ally to the 46-year-old Russian opponent, convicted of fraud and contempt of court.
“We do not exclude that they are slowly poisoning Navalny right now. They kill it little by little so it doesn’t attract so much attention“Said Kira Yarsmish, one of his closest aides and opposition spokeswoman, in a video posted on Twitter.
He recalled that the leadership of the prison in the Vladimir region in which Navalny is located had to call an ambulance on Saturday due to the aggravation of a “mysterious stomach condition”.
“In the last fifteen days of preventive detention, Navalni has lost eight kilos. They do not offer him any medical assistance,” he stressed.
similar episode
The activist denounced that the drugs her mother sends her never reach their destination and points out that in January she suffered from similar pains after the prison doctors had prescribed her antibiotics, after which she lost almost seven kilos.
Despite his precarious state of health, Navalny is in a special punishment cell in Vladimir prison number 6, about 200 kilometers from Moscow.
Along the same lines, the opponent’s lawyer, Vadim Kobzev, assured that after his client was poisoned three years ago with Novichok, any deterioration in his health must be taken very seriously.
“We will ask for toxicological and radiological tests to be carried out on him,” he said on Telegram.
Previously, Kovzen already accused Russian prison authorities of having “a clear strategy to destroy Navalny’s health with all the forces and means at its disposal”.
Navalny was seen by a doctor in mid-January after hundreds of doctors reported him bad state of health in an open letter to the president, Vladimir Putin, his great opponent.
His co-religionists link Navalny’s sending to the punishment cell, first, with an Oscar nomination for a documentary about his life, which would later win the award, which was withdrawn by his wife, Yulia, who asked for her release.
The award-winning documentary portrays Navalny’s career fighting corruption in Putin’s government, his near-fatal poisoning with a nerve agent in 2020 – which he blames on the Kremlin -, his five-month recovery in Germany and his return in Moscow in 2021, where he was arrested.
He was later sentenced to two and a half years in prison and last year was found guilty of other charges and sentenced to another nine years.
The opponent, who is 46 years old and received the Sakharov Prize from the European Parliament last year, believes that the goal of prison services is that the prisoner becomes ill so that he has no choice but to cooperate.
Russian justice rejected an appeal by Navalny’s lawyers in November and upheld the prison sentence he was handed down for fraud and contempt.
Source: agencies
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