Russian rival Navalny’s accusation is very serious: “They poisoned him in prison”

“Alexei Navalny’s condition is critical, we are all very worried.” Ruslan Shaveddinov, who is close to his Russian rival in prison, told the Guardian he felt a severe stomach ache on Friday night. Saying that the prison authorities refused to admit Navalny to the hospital, Navalny said, “We understood that the situation must be very serious since the ambulance was called.” Shaveddinov, the circle of the anti-Putin blogger believes he was poisoned: “Our theory is that they are slowly killing him using a slow-acting poison,” Shaveddinov said.

An ambulance was called last week to the IK-6 high-security penal colony in Melekhovo, 250 km from Moscow, where Navalny is being held, Shaveddinov said. The ally of the 46-year-old Russian rival, who should be sentenced to 11 years in prison for fraud, has not received any updates on his health since then, as “prison authorities have done everything possible to isolate him”. and contempt of court: claims fabricated to silence him, according to human rights groups.

As for the poisoning hypothesis, Shaveddinov recalled that Navalny was the victim of a Soviet-made nerve agent, novichok, during a 2020 trip to Siberia, where he was due to be treated in Germany. “This may sound like paranoia, but after novichok it seems totally plausible. He lost 8 pounds in two weeks, this has never happened before and the doctors don’t tell him why he’s in so much pain,” added the ally. Concerns over Navalny’s health have grown in recent months, so much so that earlier this year a group of Russian lawmakers and doctors challenged the Kremlin by signing a petition demanding adequate medical treatment for the anti-Putin blogger.

Navalny’s last social media post was from Thursday, the day before his condition deteriorated. On this occasion, he made a call to the Georgian authorities to release former president Mikheil Saakashvili from prison and undergo medical treatment.

Source: Today IT

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