Protesters across Russia call for Alexey Navalny’s release on same day as Putin’s annual address
Russian security forces rounded up more than 1,000 demonstrators on Wednesday as thousands of people in cities across the country rallied in support of jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny, according to OVD-Info, an independent monitoring group.
The unauthorized marches fell short of the 500,000 protesters that Navalny’s team had aimed to draw, but big crowds in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other cities has shown the dedication of his supporters, who are demanding that the hunger-striking Kremlin critic be released and allowed to receive independent medical care.
Four doctors not attributed to the system of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) visited Alexei Navalny, the founder of the Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK, listed by the Ministry of Justice in the register of organizations performing the functions of a foreign agent)
According to Ombudsman for Human Rights in Russia Tatyana Moskalkova, there are no serious concerns about Navalny s health. Moskalkova noted that Navalny was receiving all necessary therapy, including IVs.
Earlier it was reported that
Navalny agreed to have a glucose IV treatment.
Navalny is serving his sentence in correctional colony No. 2 in the Vladimir region. In late March, it was reported that his health condition worsened. On April 19, the FSIN reported that he was being moved to a hospital for convicts. It was said that a therapist, neurosurgeon, neurologist, nutritionist and psychiatrist examined the oppositionist in connection with his health complaints. He also underwent MRI, ultrasound and ECG examinati
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Doctors Seeking To Examine Navalny Say They Were Turned Away From Prison Again
April 20, 2021 10:31 GMT
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A team of doctors seeking to examine Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny has been turned away from the prison where he is being treated at an infirmary amid concerns his health is failing badly as he ends the third week of a hunger strike.
Anastasia Vasilyeva, Navalny s personal doctor and the head of the Alliance of Doctors union, said on April 20 the group of physicians came to the penitentiary and requested to see the Kremlin critic, only to wait several hours without success.
Alexey Navalny is Russia’s most prominent opposition figure, an anti-corruption investigator whose exposés have targeted President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle.