Alexey Navalny’s lawyers not allowed to visit him in prison for third day in a row
For the third day in a row, jailed Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny’s lawyers were denied entry to visit him in the penal colony in Russia’s Vladimir region where he is imprisoned, according to his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh.
On December 8, Navalny’s lawyers came to the IK-6 penal colony where he is currently held, and to the IK-7 special regime colony. “Everywhere they were told ‘to wait,’” said Yarmysh.
According to her, Navalny became ill in his cell last week:
The fact that we can’t find Alexey is particularly worrying because he fell ill in his cell last week: he got dizzy and laid down on the floor. The colony staff came over immediately, lowered the cot, laid Alexey down and gave him an IV.
We don’t know what it was, but given the fact that he’s not being fed, is being kept in a punishment cell with no ventilation and the time for walks has been reduced to a minimum, it looks like a hunger faint.
Since this incident, the lawyers have seen Alexey and he has been relatively well.
But now it’s the third day that we don’t know where he’s. Before that, there were at least occasional letters from him, albeit censored ones, but there have been no letters all week.
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