Russia: 70 Artists Appeal to Putin for Medical Care in Navalny

Seventy artists, writers and actors, including Nobel Laureate in Literature Svetlana Aleksievich and Salman Rushdie, today issued an appeal to Vladimir Putin to provide medical care to the substitute Alexei Navalny, who is on a hunger strike to protest his detention.

Alexei Navalny’s condition “is deteriorating and requires urgent medical attention”, write an article published in the newspaper Le Monde. “We appeal to you, Mr President, that Mr Navalny be given immediate responsible medical advice and the urgent care that every Russian citizen is entitled to.”

In addition to Svetlana Alexievich and Salman Rushdie, the appeal is signed by Nobel Prize-winning South African writer John Kocee, actors Jude Law and Vanessa Redgrave, and writers A. Ruth.

Alexei Navalny went on a hunger strike on March 31.

“Mr Navalny presents with clinical signs of a severe neurological disorder manifested by persistent back pain and loss of sensation in the legs and arms. In addition, he suffers from acute cough and high fever “, they write in their text.

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