“Everyone is afraid for Alexei Navalny life and health,” his lawyer Olga Mikhailova mentioned
Moscow:
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is in nice ache, his lawyer mentioned Thursday after visiting him in jail, including that allies feared for his life.
“He is suffering from strong back pain and pain in his right leg,” lawyer Olga Mikhailova mentioned in remarks on Dozhd tv, including that his situation was “extremely unfavourable”.
“Everyone is afraid for his life and health.”
Navalny was jailed earlier this yr after returning to Russia from Germany the place he had been handled for a near-fatal poisoning with Novichok, a military-grade nerve agent.
Mikhailova mentioned his proper leg was in “an awful condition” and he had been in ache for the previous 4 weeks.
“He is losing sensation in his shin, he can’t use his leg,” she added.
Mikhailova mentioned that on Wednesday Navalny had undergone a “strange” MRI examination in a hospital exterior the jail however medical doctors didn’t launch his well being prognosis.
She demanded that he be freed and transferred to Moscow for remedy.
Navalny’s legal professionals managed to go to him in his jail within the city of Pokrov some 100 kilometres (60 miles) east of Moscow on Thursday, after they had been denied a go to to the penal colony the day earlier than.
Earlier within the day the jail service mentioned Navalny was in a “satisfactory” situation.
He was arrested upon his return to Russia in January and was sentenced to two-and-a-half-years in jail the next month. He is serving his sentence exterior Moscow, in a penal colony infamous for harsh self-discipline.
His jailing on outdated embezzlement fees sparked massive protests, an outcry from rights teams in Russia and overseas and condemnation from Western governments.
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