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The British Foreign Office and the US State Department called on Russia to immediately release opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
The UK is deeply concerned by reports that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is deteriorating in the colony. set UK Foreign Office on Twitter.
“It is vital that he have access to medical care. We continue to call on the Russian authorities for his immediate and unconditional release and a full investigation into his poisoning,” the Foreign Ministry stressed.
The UK is deeply concerned by reports of @navalnydeterioration of health. It is vital that you have access to medical care. We continue to urge the Russian authorities for his immediate and unconditional release and for a full investigation into his poisoning.
– Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (@FCDOGovUK) March 27, 2021
State Department spokesman Ned Price, also on Twitter call Russia to immediately release the opponent.
“We have seen alarming reports of Alexei Navalny’s condition deteriorating in prison. We urge lawyers to give him access and provide him with medical assistance,” wrote a State Department spokesman.
We have seen the disturbing reports of Aleksey Navalny’s deteriorating health in prison. We urge that your attorneys continue to have access and that you receive medical care. We reiterate our call on Russia to immediately and unconditionally release Mr. Navalny.
– Ned Price (@StateDeptSpox) March 26, 2021
Navalny’s lawyers visited him at IK-2 in the city of Pokrov, Vladimir region, on March 25. Lawyer Olga Mikhailova said the politician is deprived of his right leg and given ibuprofen ointment and tablets from the drugs. Navalny’s wife, Yulia, said a note was taken from the lawyers, in which there were exercises with special gymnastics that relieve pain.
The politician himself said that his back hurt a lot, that some parts of his right leg had lost sensation and that medical assistance was not provided in the colony.
“When they were transported, I got worried and began to write every day:” Alla, it hurts a lot. Let the doctor come in here or give me a medicine. ” They do not do it. […] Complaints are taken, but nothing is done. A week ago, a prison doctor looked at me and started giving me two ibuprofen tablets, but I still don’t know the diagnosis, ”he said.
Since August 2020, Navalny has been in treatment and rehabilitation in Germany after being poisoned with a Novichok-class military substance. The plane in which he flew from Tomsk to Moscow, urgently landed in Omsk on August 20 due to the deteriorating state of the politician. Navalny was initially in a hospital in Omsk, and on August 22 he was taken to the Berlin clinic “Charite”. The politician was in a coma for 18 days. The opponent considers the assassination attempt a terrorist act organized by the FSB on the orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Navalny returned to Russia from Germany on January 17, 2021. Immediately after his return, he was detained at Sheremetyevo airport in the Yves Rocher case and arrested for 30 days (as part of the case, he received a suspended sentence and was supposed who was supposed to appear before investigators, but did not do so due to his treatment in Germany).
On February 2, the Moscow Simonovsky Court, in a retreat at the Moscow City Court, replaced Navalny’s suspended sentence with a real one in the Yves Rocher case. Taking into account the time he spent under house arrest, the politician will remain in a general regime colony for two years and 6.5 months.
February 20 Babushkinsky Court From moscow He refused to comply with the ECHR’s decision to release Navalny and recognized the decision to replace the suspended policy with a real one as legal.
At the end of February, Navalny was transferred to Correctional Colony No. 2 in the city of Pokrov, Vladimir region. He noted that the Russian prison system was able to surprise him. “I had no idea that a real concentration camp could be set up 100 km from Moscow,” the politician wrote.
Navalny’s team has already announced the launch of a “great political campaign” to free him. One of the activities of this campaign will be a big rally in spring. The organizers promised to name the exact date when the number of expected participants will reach at least 0.5 million people.
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