14. apr. 2023 20:07 – Updated Apr 14 2023 20:22
According to the Russian opposition politician’s spokeswoman, Kira Jarmysh, Navalny is possibly being poisoned little by little over time.
– They kill him slowly so that it attracts less attention, Kira Jarmysj says according to the report Sky News.
In the last week, there have been several reports that the Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny is seriously ill.
Before the weekend, Navalny is said to have suffered acute stomach pains, and an ambulance was called to the prison where he is confined.
Down eight kilos
According to the spokeswoman, Navalny has stopped eating because the food in prison worsens the acute stomach pains he experiences. The spokeswoman says he has lost eight kilos in the last 15 days.
According to Jarmysh, the prison guards must have given Navalny several injections as a treatment for the stomach pain, but they have refused to identify what they are injecting.
On Twitter, Navalny’s lawyer, Vadim Kobzev, writes that the 46-year-old suffers from an unknown illness that cannot be treated. The lawyer will demand that Navalny be subjected to tests that can detect toxic and radioactive substances, writes NTB.
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Alexei Navalny in a Moscow court in May this year. The photo comes from Russian prison authorities.
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Moved to notorious prison
Last summer, Navalny was transferred from the prison he has been in since the beginning of 2021, in Pokrov, approximately ten miles east of Moscow.
Now the opposition politician is in what his supporters have described as “one of Russia’s most terrifying prisons”, the IK-6 “Melekhovo” prison camp. Melekhovo is 25 miles east of Moscow.
Russian media have written several times about the prison camp in connection with alleged mistreatment of prisoners.
Too famous to be killed
Alexei Navalny was arrested two years ago when he returned to Russia after receiving treatment in Germany as a result of poisoning with the nerve agent Novichok.
Since February 2021, he has been in a Russian prison. In March 2022, he was sentenced to nine years in prison, partly because he broke his duty to report while lying in a coma after being poisoned with a nerve agent.
Lawrence C. Reardon, an associate professor of political science at the University of New Hampshire, has previously stated that one of the reasons Navalny is still alive may simply be that he is now “too famous to kill.”
