{"id":369315,"date":"2021-04-01T14:30:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T18:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=369315"},"modified":"2021-04-01T14:30:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T18:30:55","slug":"alexei-navalny-goes-on-hunger-strike-russian-prison-service-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alexei-navalny-goes-on-hunger-strike-russian-prison-service-responds\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexei Navalny Goes On Hunger Strike, Russian Prison Service Responds"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Falexei-navalny-goes-on-hunger-strike-russian-prison-service-responds%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=369315&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-139.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny announced on Wednesday that he has begun a hunger strike in prison in order to protest against the officials\u2019 lack of care for his current ailments.<\/p>\n<p>Navalny was arrested after returning to Russia from Germany where he had been seeking medical care after he was poisoned. He holds the Kremlin responsible for his poisoning although they have denied any involvement. United States intelligence officials have \u201cconcluded with high confidence that Navalny was poisoned last year with a banned nerve agent called Novichok by the Russian security services,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/03\/02\/biden-administration-sanctions-russia-over-navalny-imprisonment-472397\">Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Navalny released letters saying that his physical condition has worsened while he has been in prison and that he is experiencing sleep deprivation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/putin-critic-alexei-navalny-says-health-is-worsening-in-prison\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"21\">\n<p><em>The letters were reportedly sent to officials in the prison system and a prosecutor in Russia. Copies of the writings were posted to Navalny\u2019s website.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>AP reports, \u201cNavalny blamed his health problems on prison officials failing to provide the right medicines and refusing to allow his doctor to visit him behind bars. He also complained in a second letter that the hourly checks a guard makes on him at night amounted to sleep deprivation torture.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cMy condition has worsened. I feel acute pain in my right leg, and I feel numbness in its lower part,\u201d Navalny said in the letter. \u201cI have trouble walking.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He also said that officials have given him pills and topical treatment for his pain, but will not accept medication that was prescribed by his doctor beforehand.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After his lawyer, Olga Mikhailova, visited him, she confirmed that \u201chis right leg is in terrible shape.\u201d His lawyers publicly released two official complaints that Navalny had filed in Russia\u2019s Federal Penitentiary Service, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/putin-critic-alexei-navalny-says-health-is-worsening-in-prison\">The Daily Wire reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/03\/31\/europe\/navalny-russia-hunger-strike-intl\/index.html\">CNN<\/a> reported that Navalny\u2019s team had posted an image on Instagram of a handwritten letter penned by Navalny, telling the leader of the penal colony of his decision to start a hunger strike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have the right to call a doctor and get medications. They give me neither one nor the other. The back pain has moved to the leg. Parts of my right leg and now of my left leg have lost sensitivity. Jokes aside, but this is already annoying,\u201d Navalny said, according to CNN reporting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI announce a hunger strike with a demand for the law to be obeyed and that I\u2019m seen by a doctor from outside. So I\u2019m hungry, but so far I still have two legs,\u201d Navalny wrote in the Instagram post.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-russia-politics-navalny\/russia-prison-service-defends-treatment-of-hunger-striking-kremlin-critic-navalny-idUSKBN2BO4WU\">Reuters<\/a>, allies of Navalny said that he had lost weight in prison even before starting a hunger strike. They said that his weight dropped to 85kg (187 lbs) from the 93kg (205 lbs) that he weighed when he entered prison last month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe himself links this weight loss primarily to the fact that he is not allowed to sleep and is woken up eight times a night,\u201d his allies posted on his Twitter account, per the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Navalny reiterated accounts of this treatment on Wednesday, saying, \u201cInstead of medical assistance, I am tortured with sleep deprivation (they wake me up 8 times a night), and the administration persuading the activist convicts (aka \u201cgoats\u201d) to intimidate ordinary convicts so that they do not clean around my bed,\u201d CNN reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\">Navalny is being held at the IK-2 prison facility, which is located in the Vladimir region. The prison service in the area has reportedly denied Navalny\u2019s accusations of sleep deprivation and, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-russia-politics-navalny\/russia-prison-service-defends-treatment-of-hunger-striking-kremlin-critic-navalny-idUSKBN2BO4WU\">Reuters<\/a>, \u201csaid in a statement late on Wednesday that conditions for him at the prison were entirely legal and the same as for other inmates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\">The statement said that Navalny is being given all of the medical attention that is necessary and that \u201cCorrection facility officers strictly respect the right of all inmates to eight hours of uninterrupted sleep.\u201d It also added that the prison guards check on prisoners during the night, which it said does not prevent them from resting.<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span>member<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny announced on Wednesday that he has begun a hunger strike in prison in order to protest against the officials\u2019 lack of care for his current &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311527,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-139.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Alexei Navalny Goes On Hunger Strike, Russian Prison Service Responds","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-139.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Alexei Navalny Goes On Hunger Strike, Russian Prison Service Responds","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}