MOSCOW – Alexei Navalny he has two slipped discs and is losing sensation in his hands. The worsening of the situation in which the Russian opponent finds himself was denounced by his lawyer, Olga Mikhailova, who confirmed his transfer to the penal colony infirmary where he underwent an MRI. For doctors, the two herniated discs are “difficult to treat”. The opponent is still feverish and has a severe cough, but tests have not registered the presence of the tuberculosis virus.
Navalny refused to take some drugs prescribed to him by the prison paramedics, remedies that were in use about thirty years ago, Mikhailova pointed out. For some weeks now she has been suffering from severe back pain, which has spread to one leg of which she has lost sensitivity. He underwent an MRI on March 24 and prison authorities, according to Interfax, declared his condition “stable and satisfactory”. Navalnyj, explains the lawyer, showed her the results of the examination, from which two herniated discs emerge. In addition, the opponent still has a cough, while the fever has subsided.
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A post in his name appeared on social media in which the opponent says how the administration of the penal colony where he is being held is trying to “discredit” his hunger strike. According to Navalnyj, the most important thing “in the first phase of the hunger strike in prison” was the control of his pockets: sweets were hidden there. “I knew, of course, that the authorities would try to discredit the hunger strike and ridicule it: I am only surprised by the crudeness of the approach,” Navalnyj wrote. Jellyfish. He also said that a few days after the hunger strike began, in the nearby kitchen just to undermine his determination to abstain from food, a pan appeared in which they began to fry chicken and bread.
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