Moscow:
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been transferred from a prison hospital back to his penal colony just after getting therapy following a hunger strike, his allies mentioned Monday.
Navalny was jailed for two and a half years in February on old embezzlement charges he and his supporters say are politically motivated.
He was sentenced shortly just after returning to Russia from Germany, exactly where he was getting therapy for a close to-fatal poisoning attack with a nerve agent.
President Vladimir Putin’s most outspoken domestic critic declared a hunger strike in March to demand correct healthcare therapy for a developing list of well being complaints, which includes back discomfort and numbness in his limbs.
Navalny in April was transferred to a prison hospital in a different penal colony as the West warned it would hold the Kremlin accountable for the state of his well being.
The opposition politician known as off the strike 24 days later.
“Navalny has been transferred back to the Penal Colony No. 2,” Navalny’s group mentioned on Twitter on Monday.
The prison is situated in the town of Pokrov one hundred kilometres (60 miles) east of Moscow.
A court in Moscow is taking into consideration regardless of whether to designate Navalny’s political network as an “extremist” organisation, which would get rid of possible challengers to the ruling United Russia party ahead of parliamentary elections in September.
A selection is anticipated as early as this week.
Last Friday, Putin authorized an anti-extremism law anticipated to be used to ban his allies from operating in elections. The Kremlin chief signed off on the legislation the day Navalny marked his 45th birthday behind bars.
Many of his close allies are either outdoors Russia or below arrest.
On Sunday, prominent Kremlin critic and former opposition lawmaker Dmitry Gudkov mentioned he had left Russia for Ukraine due to stress from authorities ahead of the elections.
Citing sources close to the Kremlin, Gudkov, 41, mentioned that if he did not leave he would be arrested more than a “fake” criminal case against him.
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