Lawyers for jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny say he is being poisoned

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The Russian opposition leader has been routinely kept in punitive solitary confinement where he has grown increasingly ill.

Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is in failing health because of a new suspected poisoning and is back in a punishment cell after a few days in regular confinement, a spokeswoman said.Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny and his lawyers have alleged repeated poisoning while in prisonMr Navalny has routinely been kept in punitive solitary confinement while in prison

Anna Veduta, a Washington DC-based vice president of Mr Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, told The Associated Press the 46-year-old fell ill last Friday when he was released from a punishment cell and put in a conventional cell."We believe he is slowly being administered low doses of poison" in pills he is given without identification, Ms Veduta said.

On Monday, Mr Navalny wrote on Twitter, he was put back in a punishment cell for another 15-day stint. An ambulance was called early on Saturday because of acute stomach pains but Mr Navalny received no diagnosis, lawyer Vadim Kobzev wrote on Twitter after visiting him in prison.

 

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