They denounce little medical attention to Navalny in prison 0:32
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Russian opponent Alexey Navalny said he is going on a hunger strike to protest the refusal of prison officials to guarantee him adequate medical care, in a post his team shared on his official Instagram page on Wednesday. .
“I have the right to call a doctor and get medicine.
They don't give me one or the other.
The back pain moved to the leg.
Parts of my right leg and now my left leg have lost feeling.
Joking aside, this is already annoying, ”Navalny said.
Navalny informed the head of Penal Colony No. 2 in Pokrov that he was going to go on a hunger strike in a handwritten letter.
His team shared the images of the letter on Instagram.
«I announce a hunger strike demanding that the law be observed and that an outside doctor see me.
So I'm hungry, but so far I still have two legs, ”Navalny said in the Instagram post.
One of Navalny's lawyers said last week that the opponent had been suffering from severe back pain and that it had affected his ability to walk.
He also said that his condition was being aggravated by alleged "sleep deprivation torture."
Alexey Navalny during a hearing in Moscow on February 20, 2021.
Navalny echoed these comments Wednesday, saying he is being tortured.
"Instead of medical assistance, they torture me with sleep deprivation (they wake me up eight times a night) and the administration persuades convicted activists (also known as 'goats') to intimidate common prisoners into not cleaning around my bed, ”Navalny said.
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Alexey Navalny, a critic of the Kremlin
A group of Russian doctors recently started an online petition asking prison authorities to allow Navalny to be treated by a doctor from outside the prison.
Russia's Federal Prison Service said last week that Navalny and other prisoners in the Vladimir region had undergone medical examinations at the request of inmates, according to state media TASS.
Navalny is in "generally good and stable health," according to the service statement.
Navalny, an outspoken critic of the government in an anti-corruption crusade, has long been a nuisance to President Vladimir Putin.
This has raised concerns for their security within the country.
The activist nearly died after being poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok last August.
A joint investigation by CNN and the Bellingcat group implicated the Russian Security Service in the Navalny poisoning.
Russia denies its involvement, but several Western officials and Navalny himself have openly blamed the Kremlin.
Navalny returned to Russia in January after spending five months in Germany, where he had been recovering from the poisoning.
Navalny was jailed earlier this year for violating the terms of his probation in a 2014 case in which he had received a suspended sentence of three and a half years.
A Moscow court took into account the 11 months that Navalny had already spent under house arrest as part of the decision and last month replaced the remainder of the suspended sentence with a prison term.
Alexey Navalny