File photo: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny stands inside a glass cell during a court hearing at the Babushkinsky district court in Moscow on February 20, 2021.Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFPJailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny risks cardiac arrest at “any minute” as his health has rapidly deteriorated, doctors warned Saturday, urging immediate access to Russia’s most famous prisoner.
Navalny, 44, was imprisoned in February and is serving two-and-a-half years on old embezzlement charges in a penal colony in the town of Pokrov around 100 kilometres east of Moscow. Having blood potassium levels higher than 6.0 mmol per litre usually requires immediate treatment. Navalny’s were at 7.1, the doctors said.
More than 70 prominent international writers, artists and academics, including Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave and Benedict Cumberbatch, have called on Putin to ensure that Navalny receives proper treatment immediately.Navalny’s team had earlier announced plans to stage what they said would be “modern Russia’s biggest protest”.Navalny’s allies said they would set a date for the protest once 500,000 supporters had registered with a website.
The decision to go on hunger strike is senseless. After all he is not sentenced to life, there is an assurance that he would be released on day. If he dies now, how does he want to continue the struggle, people will just mourn him for some days and forget about him
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