The United States and the EU have slapped sanctions on Russia for jailing Alexei Navalny
Moscow:
Russia stated Thursday that jailed opposition determine Alexei Navalny was in “satisfactory” situation, however didn’t reassure his allies who demanded readability about his well being and whereabouts.
Navalny, 44, was detained in January after touchdown in Russia from Germany the place he was recovering for a number of months from a poisoning assault with a Soviet-designed nerve agent that almost left him useless.
His jailing in February on outdated embezzlement fees sparked giant protests, an outcry from rights teams in Russia and overseas and condemnation from Western governments.
On Wednesday, Navalny’s attorneys sounded the alarm over his well being in one in every of Russia’s most infamous prisons, saying he had complained of again ache and numbness in his legs.
The jail service Thursday sought to defuse issues over Navalny’s well being, saying medical doctors had carried out checks and located him to be effectively.
“According to the results of the examination, his state of health was assessed as stable and satisfactory,” the Federal Prison Service (FSIN) stated.
But Navalny’s chief of workers Leonid Volkov stated the FSIN’s message urged Navalny was in hospital and that “something very bad is happening to him”.
He later famous that two of Navalny’s attorneys had been granted entry to the penal colony in Pokrov, the provincial city outdoors the Russian capital the place the Kremlin critic is being held.
Navalny was jailed in February for two-and-a-half years in a transfer his allies stated was a pretext to silence his criticism of Russian chief Vladimir Putin.
The United States and the European Union have slapped sanctions on Russia for jailing Navalny and likewise for allegedly orchestrating final 12 months’s poisoning, a cost Moscow has denied.
He was detained in January on his return to Russia from Germany the place he had been recovering from publicity to the Soviet-designed nerve toxin, Novichok.
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The Kremlin stated Thursday it was not following studies of Navalny’s well being and had not requested data from jail authorities.
“The condition of convicts and people who are serving time in correctional institutions is being monitored by their administrations. That’s their job,” spokesman Dmitry Peskov advised reporters.
On Wednesday, Navalny’s lawyer Olga Mikhailova stated he had complained of again ache and that one in every of his legs had change into numb.
She added that he had visited a neurologist who stated there was nothing unsuitable with Navalny and prescribed him ibuprofen.
One of the skilled lawyer’s allies, Maria Pevchikh, who heads investigations at his Anti-Corruption Foundation, stated Navalny’s supporters believed his “life is in danger”.
Navalny is serving out his two-and-a-half 12 months sentence 100 kilometres (60 miles) east of Moscow in a penal colony notorious for harsh self-discipline.
In his first message from Pokrov’s Penal Colony No. 2 earlier this month, Navalny described the ability as “a real concentration camp”, and stated he was “surprised” by the poor circumstances.
Navalny has been a thorn within the Kremlin’s facet for practically a decade by probing corruption amongst officers and staging giant protests all through Russia.
His detention at a Moscow airport in January sparked protests that noticed tens of hundreds of individuals take to the streets throughout the nation.
Navalny’s allies this week launched a marketing campaign looking for his launch and introduced plans to stage what they stated could be “modern Russia’s biggest protest.”
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