Appeal to Russia to provide urgent medical care to the substitute Alexei Navalny as his health condition is critical, a representative of the German government said on Friday (13/1).
The spokeswoman added that her country’s government is trying to help Navalny, but that this is difficult under the current circumstances due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“We received with great concern the information about the critical state of health of Alexei Navalny,” said German government spokeswoman Christiane Hoffmann during a regular press briefing.
Hoffman also called on Moscow to “immediately” provide medical treatment to the Kremlin opponent, who in 2020 was allegedly poisoned by Russian security services.
“What is happening to Navalny may apply to all those in Russia who raise their voices against President Putin’s regime,” the spokeswoman said of Navalny, who had been hospitalized in Berlin after being poisoned.
Navalny has the flu
Navalny, 46, said on Wednesday that he had flu-like symptoms and had been denied adequate access to treatmentwhile his supporters denounced the Kremlin’s attempt to “kill” him slowly.
He says he has to fight “hard” to get “basic medicines” and that he has been refused treatment at the prison’s medical unit, located 200 km from Moscow.
In addition, the prison administration forces, as Navalny complains, anyone held in the same cell as him to come and go with the prison’s medical unit, in the midst of a flu epidemic.
Russian President “(Vladimir) Putin is trying again and again to kill Navalny, but in a more subtle and slower way,” aides complained on Wednesday.
Almost 500 Russian doctors, as reported by the Athens News Agency, have signed a petition, which was posted on Facebook, calling on Putin to provide proper care to Navalny and end his “abuse”.
Navalny, a hated figure for President Putin and opposed to military action in Ukraine, was arrested in Russia in January 2021 on his return to the country after a serious poisoning he attributes to the Kremlin.
In March, he was sentenced to a “heavy” nine-year prison sentence for the “fraud” charges, which he considers fictitious. The decision was “politically motivated”, for her part, the representative of the German government complained today.
Navalny was sentenced to nine years in prison after being found guilty of fraud and contempt of court.
He rejects the latest case against him saying it is politically motivated and declaring his innocence.
Source: News Beast
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