Prison hell for Putin’s greatest enemy
Alexei Navalny is sitting in this Russian prison camp
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The EU foreign ministers want to talk about developments in the case at their conference this Monday, such as the ME announced, which also requested medical access to Navalny.
The German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas appealed to Moscow: “We urgently demand that Alexej Navalny receive adequate medical treatment and access to doctors he trusts.” His right to medical care must be “granted immediately,” said the SPD politician of “Bild”.
Celebrities are also calling for Navalny to be treated
More than 70 celebrities wrote an open letter to Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin with this request. “As a Russian citizen, he has the right to be examined and treated by a doctor of his choice,” said the appeal, which was published in several European daily newspapers on Saturday. The signatories include Harry Potter author JK Rowling, Nobel Prize winners such as Herta Müller and Louise Glück, Abba founder Björn Ulvaeus and actor Benedict Cumberbatch.
Navalny has been on hunger strike since March 31st. He is threatened with force-feeding. The Putin opponent, who barely survived a poison attack last year, recently complained of back problems, paralysis in the limbs, fever and cough.
Wassiljewa and three colleagues also spoke of critical potassium levels, which could lead to kidney failure and severe cardiac arrhythmias. “We are extremely concerned about his condition,” said the letter to the head of the penal system, Alexander Kalashnikov. “We urgently ask for negotiations.”
Navalny probably still weighs 76 kilograms at a height of 1.90 meters
At a height of 1.90 meters, he weighed 76 kilograms a few days ago, according to his wife. He is said to have lost a kilo a day. Navalny is sitting under difficult conditions in a camp about 100 kilometers away from Moscow. His team called for new protests next Wednesday evening. On that day, President Putin also wants to give his speech to the nation.
Nawalny’s spokeswoman wrote that lawyers could not contact them on the weekends. “Nobody knows what will happen on Monday.” The Green MEP Sergey Lagodinsky told the editorial network Germany, Germany and the EU should enforce a treatment of the opposition in the EU at the Kremlin – similar to the attack on him last summer.
Cardiologist: Need a landmark decision
Cardiologist Alexei Erlich told Echo Moskvy radio station: “I don’t know whether Navalny’s fate will be decided by the penitentiary, the presidential administration or Putin personally. But now, today, we need a fundamental decision that allows independent doctors to make Navalny. ” The medic is part of the opposition party’s team of personal doctors.
Navalny had survived an assassination attempt with the neurotoxin Novitschok in August and had been treated in Germany. He complains that the use of the banned chemical warfare agent in his home country is not being investigated. Several laboratories in the EU had detected the poison. He himself blames a “killer squad” from the domestic secret service FSB for the attack, which is said to be under Putin’s command. The Kremlin chief and the FSB rejected the allegations.
Also read: What Russians in Oberallgäu say about the Navalny conflict
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