Feverish and sick, the Russian opponent Alexeï Navalny remains nonetheless determined.
The opponent of the Kremlin, who went on hunger strike last week to complain of ill-treatment in prison, said Monday to continue his action despite everything.
The 44-year-old anti-corruption activist announced on March 31 that he was stopping eating, accusing the prison administration in particular of denying him access to a doctor and medication and of "torturing" him by depriving him of food. sleep.
Detained in the Pokrov penal colony, 100 km east of Moscow and considered to be one of the toughest in Russia, he complains of severe back pain and loss of sensitivity in his legs.
"I quote the official data from today's temperature measurement: 'a strong cough, 38.1 ° C temperature," the opponent wrote in the Kremlin on his Instagram account.
But "I am continuing the hunger strike, of course," he added.
According to Alexeï Navalny, an inmate from his barracks was hospitalized on Monday for tuberculosis, the third case of this kind in a few weeks out of 15 prisoners.
“This is our 'perfect, exemplary colony'.
Each prisoner prays to God not to end up here because inside, it is insalubrity, tuberculosis and a lack of medicines ”, he writes.
"I am surprised that there is no Ebola virus here," he then quipped.
"There is not a single word of truth"
Several pro-Kremlin Russian media, including the Russian state television channel RT, responded on Friday to recent accusations by Alexei Navalny of mistreatment in prison by presenting his camp as an “exemplary” penal colony.
“There is not a single word of truth,” the opponent retorted on Monday.
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"We are going there to understand what is happening in this horrible colony," said Anastasia Vassilieva, the president of the union and personal doctor of Alexeï Navalny.
The opponent, who survived last year from poisoning, was sentenced in February to two and a half years in prison for fraud in a case dating back to 2014, which he denounces as politically motivated.