Doctors ‘prevented from seeing Navalny in prison hospital’

SEVERAL doctors have been prevented from seeing Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a prison hospital after his threeweek hunger strike.

Mr Navalny was transferred on Sunday from a penal colony east of Moscow to a prison hospital in

Vladimir, a city 110 miles east of the capital, after his lawyers and associates said his condition had dramatically worsened.

His lawyer Vadim Kobzev tweeted that Mr Navalny so far has received only one glucose injection since Sunday at the hospital unit.

Six other attempts to give him a shot failed because paramedics apparently were not qualified enough to find his vein, he said.

Reports about Mr Navalny’s rapidly deteriorating health have drawn international outrage. His personal doctor Dr Anastasia

Vasilyeva led three other medics to try to visit Mr Navalny at the prison clinic and the IK-3 prison. They were denied entry after waiting for hours outside the gates.

Russia’s penitentiary service insists Mr Navalny is getting all the medical help he needs.