Bundestag Committee calls Navalny treatment ‘targeted torture’ | Abroad

“We consider the treatment of yourself as targeted torture and therefore contrary to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment,” said the committee, which oversees the course of German foreign policy.

According to his lawyers, Navalny’s health is deteriorating rapidly. He would no longer have feeling in his hands. The opposition leader has been on hunger strike for a week to demand medical treatment. He previously complained about, among other things, severe back pain.

Navalny is said to have lost 13 pounds since he was jailed last month, his team of lawyers said. They demand that he be transferred to a hospital, but according to the Kremlin he does not qualify for special treatment. The German committee says it supports Navalny and believes that his case should be investigated at European level.

Navalny is serving a 2.5-year prison sentence. The prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin is said to have failed to abide by the terms of a previous fraud conviction. He was arrested in February after returning from Germany, where he was recovering from nerve poison poisoning.

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