Navalny's ally warns about his serious health 3:06
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Jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny said Friday that he is ending the hunger strike.
“I do not withdraw the requirement to admit the necessary doctor for me.
I am losing sensitivity in parts of my arms and legs, and I want to understand what it is and how to treat it, but taking into account the progress and all the circumstances, I am beginning to come out of the hunger strike, "Navalny said in a message shared by his team on Instagram.
At the end of March Navalny said that he will go on a hunger strike to protest against the refusal of prison officials to guarantee him adequate medical care, in a post his team shared on his official Instagram page.
“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 at the time.
One of Navalny's lawyers said 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."
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Alexey Navalny, a critic of the Kremlin
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
