Status: 04/12/2023 10:52 a.m
According to his lawyer, Kremlin opponent Navalny, who was imprisoned in Russia, is again seriously ill. He has lost a lot of weight, an “unknown illness” is not being treated. Now Navalny has been transferred to a solitary cell again.
Despite his lawyer’s complaints about acute health problems, anti-Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny, who has been imprisoned in Russia, has once again been transferred to a solitary cell. The opposition politician’s team said he was only released from solitary confinement on Friday and was sent there for a further 15 days on Monday.
He was also confronted with further harassment. So Navalny’s daily exit in the narrow prison yard was shifted to 7 a.m. According to the information, there are also new restrictions on buying food and writing letters from Navalny.
Penalty for researching corruption?
The 46-year-old sees his new solitary confinement as punishment for investigating corruption in the prison authorities. The Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK), managed by Navalny, had previously published an article about the overpriced purchase of food in Russian prisons.
“Unknown Disease”
According to his lawyer, Navalny is in poor health. Lawyer Vadim Kobsev wrote on Twitter on Tuesday that he was suffering from “an unknown disease that nobody is treating.
An ambulance was called to Navalny’s cell at the weekend because his stomach condition had worsened, the lawyer explained. His client has lost eight kilos in the past two weeks, according to his medical record, he added. Medicines sent by Navalny’s mother would be “sent back to her”.
Kobsev said Navalny was suffering from “crises”. He thinks it is possible that the authorities want his health to deteriorate “not suddenly, but gradually”.
In the penal camp for two years
For more than two years, Navalny has been in particularly harsh prison conditions in a penal camp about 260 kilometers northeast of Moscow. He was sentenced by a Russian court for alleged fraud, but internationally the prominent opponent of Putin is considered a political prisoner. Navalny narrowly escaped an assassination attempt with the neurotoxin Novichok in 2020.