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Navalny went on hunger strike last Wednesday, demanding proper medical care for the aching back and numbness of his legs.
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Navalny is still on hunger strike and has started coughing, his lawyers said on Wednesday, visiting an opposition prison at Pokrov Prison.
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“He looks bad, he doesn’t feel well,” Olga Mikhailova, a lawyer for Navalny, told AFP, adding that Navalny currently weighs only about 80 kilograms.
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Navalny was 189 centimeters tall and weighed 93 kilograms when he arrived at the prison in March.
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“No one will treat him,” Mikhailov added.
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Navalny’s lawyers are demanding that the opposition be transferred to a normal prison, but Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov has indicated that the opposition does not deserve special treatment.
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Navalny is losing a kilogram a day, said Vadim Kobzev, a member of the opposition team.
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While walking, Navalny felt pain, Kobzev said on Twitter. In addition to back pain and tingling in the legs, the opposition’s hands have also started to tingle.
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Earlier in the week, Navalny announced that he had cough and fever and that three people in his prison were diagnosed with tuberculosis and hospitalized.
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The administration of US President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday that he is worried about the deteriorating health of Navalny.
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“We are alarmed by reports that Navalny’s health is deteriorating,” White House spokeswoman Jena Psaki said, adding that Washington’s imprisonment of Navalny was seen as “politically motivated and a great injustice.”
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The 44-year-old Navalny was arrested on January 17 at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport after returning from Germany, where he recovered more than four months after being poisoned by the war substance Novichok.
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On February 2, Navalny was sentenced two and a half years in prison for violating the terms of his suspended sentence in 2014 while receiving treatment in Germany.
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