Moscow:
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Monday stated he was suffering from a heavy cough and fever but would continue a hunger strike he launched final week demanding sufficient healthcare remedy.
Navalny, 44, announced the hunger strike final Wednesday, complaining a prison medical doctor had only offered him painkillers as remedy for extreme back discomfort and numbness in his legs.
His group the next day stated he had currently lost eight kilogrammes (18 pounds) ahead of going on hunger strike — down from the 93 kilogrammes (205 pounds) he weighed when he arrived at his penal colony — due to sleep deprivation.
In a post on his Instagram Monday, Navalny reported new ailments.
“I am quoting the official data from today’s temperature measurement: ‘Navalny A.A., strong cough, temperature 38.1’,” he wrote, referring to degrees Celsius, or one hundred.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
“P.S. I am continuing my hunger strike, of course,” Navalny stated.
Later the pro-Kremlin Izvestia day-to-day stated that Navalny had been transferred to a healthcare unit for observation, with “signs of a respiratory problem, notably a high fever”.
All the vital tests have been carried out, which includes a coronavirus test, the paper stated, citing prison services.
There was no confirmation of such a transfer from the Navalny camp.
The opposition politician is serving a two-and-a-half year sentence on old fraud charges, in a penal colony in the town of Pokrov some one hundred kilometres (62 miles) east of Moscow recognized for its harsh discipline.
Doctors’ protest
His most current statement from the colony comes following pro-Kremlin media on Friday launched an offensive aiming to disprove his complaints of mistreatment and lack of healthcare focus.
Two reports in pro-Kremlin outlets described Navalny as hunting “quite normal” and saying he is incarcerated in a colony that is “practically exemplary”.
In his post Monday, Navalny stated the reports had “not a single word of truth”.
As proof, he wrote that a third particular person out of the 15 inmates in his unit had been hospitalised with tuberculosis considering the fact that his arrival at the penal colony in February.
“I am surprised that there is no Ebola virus here,” he quipped, adding: “such is our ‘ideal, exemplary colony’.”
Navalny was arrested on his return to Russia in January, following spending months in Germany recovering from a poisoning final summer season that he blames on the Kremlin.
Earlier this month, Navalny, who is deemed a flight danger by authorities, filed two complaints against prison officials, saying he is woken eight instances a evening by guards announcing to a recording camera that he is nevertheless in his cell.
The Alliance of Doctors healthcare trade union stated it would organise a protest outdoors the penal colony in Pokrov on Tuesday, demanding Navalny acquire sufficient healthcare remedy.
The group, which was branded a “foreign agent” by Russia’s justice ministry final month, is headed by Navalny’s private medical doctor Anastasia Vasilyeva.
“We are going there to understand what the hell is going on at this terrible colony,” she wrote on Twitter.
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