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“I interacted with the leadership of the colony. They told me that Navaln had repeatedly refused the treatment offered. He was examined by the colony aide, examined by visiting doctors and taken to a regional hospital where he had an MRI scan, “Butina told the Interfax news agency after a visit to the correctional center.
According to her, according to the law, “no one will allow any personal doctor to enter the colony.”
Butina also said the opposition refused to take diclofenac because they thought the drug, which relieves muscle and joint pain, would raise their blood pressure.
When asked what would happen to Navaln if he continued his hunger strike, the Interfax interlocutor did not rule out the possibility that he would have to be fed.
The 44-year-old opponent is serving a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence in the infamous Pokrov colony. As soon as he returned to Russia from Germany, where he was receiving treatment after an attempt to poison him, he was arrested and soon convicted of violating the terms of his probation in a 2014 fraud and embezzlement case while receiving treatment abroad.
Navaln says he suffers from severe back pain in prison and has lost feeling in his legs, but is only receiving pain relievers.
Reuters / Photo by Scanpix / Alexei Navaln
He declared a hunger strike on Wednesday, demanding adequate medical care and medication.
The next day, the Federal Prison Service (FSIN) announced that doctors who had examined the Kremlin’s criticism also rated him.
Members of the local Public Monitoring Commission visited the opposition and reported that he complained of pain in his leg but was able to walk.
The FSIN said on Wednesday that Mr. Navaln “had received the necessary medical assistance in view of his current health condition.”
Navaln has yet to fully recover from an attempt to poison him last August, when he felt ill and passed out on a plane flying from Siberia to Moscow. The plane was forced to land in Omsk.
He was treated by local doctors for a few days and then he was transferred to Berlin for treatment.
Western experts have discovered that Navaln was poisoned with the nerve paralyzing substance Novičiok, developed in the Soviet Union, although Russian authorities have repeatedly denied any involvement in the poisoning.
For many months, A. Navaln was treated in Germany, underwent physiotherapy procedures, and had to learn to walk or lift a glass of water again.
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