Moscow:
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Wednesday stated he is going on hunger strike till he receives appropriate healthcare remedy for serious back discomfort and numbness in his legs.
President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critic, who is serving a 2.5-year sentence in one of Russia’s most notorious penal colonies, stated he was losing sensation in each legs and demanding he be appropriately treated.
The 44-year-old stated was suffering from a pinched nerve that had brought on his ideal leg to go numb and accused prison officials of refusing to provide him with sufficient healthcare remedy.
He complained he had only been offered painkillers, but had not been appropriately diagnosed.
In a post on Instagram on Wednesday, Navalny stated that the back discomfort was now causing a loss of feeling in his left leg, also.
“I have gone on a hunger strike demanding that the law be obeyed and that a doctor be allowed to visit me,” he stated.
Navalny, who is regarded a flight threat by authorities, final week filed two formal complaints against prison authorities, saying that he is woken eight occasions a evening by guards announcing to a recording camera that he is nevertheless in his cell.
– ‘Jokes aside’ –
On Wednesday, he stated that alternatively of getting healthcare remedy he is continuing to be “tortured through sleep deprivation”.
“I have the right to ask for a doctor and receive medicine,” he wrote. “Jokes aside but this is already bothering me.”
Navalny was detained in mid-January just after returning to Russia from Germany, exactly where he had been recovering for various months from a poisoning attack with Novichok nerve agent he says was orchestrated by the Kremlin.
He spent February among detention centres and courtrooms in Moscow exactly where he was on trial for slandering a World War II veteran and violating the terms of an old suspended sentence handed down for fraud.
Last week he stated he believed he had suffered a pinched nerve from routinely getting ferried in police wagons and standing “crookedly” in court cages for defendants.
He joked that he did not want to “part with” his ideal leg and quipped about becoming a one-legged pirate.
Navalny’s allies and Western governments say his prosecution is politically motivated.
Rights activists say his penal colony is one of Russia’s worst and his wife Yulia has appealed straight to Putin to set his critic cost-free.
Europe’s rights court had named on Russia to release the Kremlin critic out of a concern for his life, but Moscow rejected the get in touch with.
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