{"id":118490,"date":"2021-03-25T08:59:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T08:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=118490"},"modified":"2021-03-25T08:59:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T08:59:29","slug":"health-of-jailed-kremlin-critic-alexei-navalny-is-satisfactory-says-russian-prison-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/markets\/health-of-jailed-kremlin-critic-alexei-navalny-is-satisfactory-says-russian-prison-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Health of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is satisfactory, says Russian prison service"},"content":{"rendered":"
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny\u2019s health is stable and satisfactory, Russia\u2019s Federal Penitentiary Service said on Thursday, a day after his allies raised the alarm over his condition.<\/p> Navalny\u2019s allies said on Wednesday that they were concerned by a deterioration in his health and his lawyers said they had not been allowed to visit him in prison.<\/p>\n The penitentiary service said prisons in the Vladimir region, where Navalny is being held, had carried out medical examinations on inmates on Wednesday.<\/p>\n It said the checks had been conducted at inmates\u2019 request and that the 44-year-old opposition politician had been examined too.<\/p>\n \u201cHis health is deemed stable and satisfactory, according to the results of the examination,\u201d the Interfax news agency cited the penitentiary service as saying.<\/p>\n The statement did not satisfy Navalny allies.<\/p>\n \u201cNow we are really worried,\u201d Navalny\u2019s Anti-Corruption Foundation wrote on Twitter. \u201cEven the Federal Penitentiary Service can\u2019t call Navalny\u2019s condition good.\u201d<\/p>\n Navalny was jailed last month for two and a half years on charges he called politically motivated. He was arrested as he returned to Russia from Germany in January where he had been recovering from what doctors said was a nerve agent poisoning.<\/p>\n Leonid Volkov, a close Navalny ally, said on Wednesday that Navalny began experiencing serious back pain last week, felt a numbness in his leg and was unable to stand on it. He was given two Ibuprofen pills for the pain, Volkov said.<\/p>\n Navalny\u2019s allies announced plans on Tuesday to stage what they hope will be the biggest anti-Kremlin street protest in modern Russian history this spring in bid to have him released. The authorities have said such protests are illegal.<\/p>\n