Russian opponent Alexei Navalny, imprisoned for two years, is sick and left “without care”, his lawyer Vadim Kobzev said on Tuesday, denouncing a “very strange” situation.
“Overnight from Friday to Saturday an ambulance was called to his cell due to a worsening stomach illness,” Kobzev tweeted about his client’s condition. He claimed that Navalny, 46, was suffering from “an unknown disease for which no one is treating him”.
“According to his medical file, in the last fortnight he has lost 8 kg”, he added, specifying that the packages containing medicines that Navalny’s mother sent to her son “are sent back to him”, without that he cannot receive them.
“Crises”
According to Kobzev, his client is suffering from “crises” and he said “not to rule out” an attempt by the authorities to let the health of the political opponent “deteriorate, not suddenly, but gradually”. “We will demand toxicological and radiological examinations,” he said.
At the start of the year, Alexeï Navalny had claimed to suffer from flu-like symptoms and to be deprived of satisfactory access to care. His supporters denounced an attempt by the Kremlin to “kill” him slowly.
Navalny, Vladimir Putin’s pet peeve and opponent of the military offensive in Ukraine, was arrested in Russia in January 2021, on his return to the country after suffering serious poisoning which he attributes to the Kremlin. In March of the same year, he was sentenced to nine years in prison under a “severe” regime for charges of “fraud” which he considers fictitious.
