Alexei Navalny’s lawyer said on Tuesday that the prominent Kremlin critic was “seriously ill” amid reports that he was transferred to a prison infirmary on Monday.
The Guardian reports that Navalny’s lawyer, Olga Mikhailova, said members of his legal team saw him on Tuesday, saying he was “in very bad shape”.
Navalny said in a note published on Monday that he was coughing and at 40 degrees. Other prisoners in his ward had already received treatment for tuberculosis.
Navalny started a hunger strike last week in an attempt to receive adequate medical treatment, saying he was experiencing pain in his back and legs, while losing sensation in parts of his body. He is currently being held at IK-2 prison.
“He lost a lot of weight, in addition to having a strong cough and a temperature of 38.1 [Celsius]”Said Mikhailova on the radio station Echo of Moscow. “This man is seriously ill. It is a complete outrage that the IK-2 [prison] led him to this condition. “
Navalny survived poisoning with the Soviet-era Novichok nerve agent last August after receiving treatment and recovering in a hospital in Germany. The poisoning drew international attention, with the European Union announcing last October that it would apply sanctions against six Russians and an organization believed to be linked to the poisoning.
Navalny is currently serving a two-and-a-half-year sentence on charges of embezzlement, which he says are a form of retribution for his opposition to the Russian president. Vladimir Putin
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The Russian Federal Prison Service said in March that Navalny’s health was “stable and satisfactory” after Navalny’s allies raised questions about his health. The German hospital where he was treated for his poisoning, Charité-Universitätsmedizin, said at the time of his discharge that it was difficult to say what the long-term effects of his poisoning would be on his health.