Members of the European Parliament called on the ambassadors of Western countries to visit Navalny

A group of deputies of the European Parliament from different countries and various political factions on Thursday made a statement in connection with the latest messages about the situation with the Russian oppositionist Alexei Navalny, who holds a hunger strike in the colony, seeking to provide the necessary medical care.

The statement states that the deputies are “amazed and deeply concerned” by the news about the state of health of Navalny and the conditions in which he is located. “Just six months ago, he survived an insidious attempt using a neuro-paralytic poison,” the authors of the statement recall. "In conclusion, he is systematically refused medical care, in addition, the guards wake him up at night every hour, that his lawyers are evaluated as torture by depriving sleep," the statement said. The authors refer to the statements of Navalny himself and his lawyers about the situation in colony No. 2 in Pokrov, the Vladimir Region, where the Russian oppositionist is located. The Russian authorities and the Federal Penitentiary Service deny that Navalny’s rights to receive medical care are infringed.

Deputies of the European Parliament call on the countries of the West to intervene and prevent Navalny to share the fate of Sergei Magnitsky, an auditor who died in the Moscow pre -trial detention center in 2009, in honor of which mechanisms were named in the USA and EU to impose sanctions against violators of human rights around the world.

Members of the European Parliament called on Russia to provide Navalny medical care and free it, and the EU countries and the EU Council - to achieve these requirements. In addition, they called the EU ambassador to Russia, together with the ambassadors of Britain, Canada and the EU, visit the colony and meet Navalny there.

The application was signed by about 80 members of the European Parliament, mainly from the countries of Central Europe and the Baltic, also from France, Germany, Spain and other EU states.

For more than a month, Navalny has been complaining of severe back pain, loss of sensitivity of the limbs. The day before, it became known that the doctors of colony No. 2 reported a policy that two hernias were discovered on an MRI.

Navalny’s lawyer Olga Mikhailova said that the opposition, in addition to problems with his back and legs, began to disappear, and the body temperature ranges from 38 to 39 degrees. At the same time, the politician continues the hunger strike with the demand to allow a civilian doctor to him and drinks only water.

Previously, Navalny was transferred to the prison medical unit due to "symptoms of acute respiratory disease."

Also, according to the opposition, enclosed in the colony, they almost do not give any protein food, but feed mainly porridge of "type of glue" and crossed potatoes. However, as Navalny said through lawyers the day before, after he announced a hunger strike, a fried chicken appeared in his detachment in his detachment.

• On February 2, the Simonovsky court of Moscow sent Alexei Navalny to the colony in the criminal case of Yves Rocher, in 2013, which the European Court of Human Rights recognized as unlawful. The opposition will have to be conducted in conclusion for about two and a half years.
• After a month and a half, Navalny’s lawyers announced a sharp deterioration in his health. According to them, in conclusion, the opposition is experiencing severe back pain, in addition, his leg is taken away. At the same time, Navalny handed it to the lawyers that he did not receive proper medical care, the colony administration does not respond to his complaints and requests to resolve the examination by a civilian specialist, and from the drugs he was discharged only Ibuprofen. The politician also complained that prison doctors did not tell him the diagnosis and results of MRI. In response to this, the press service of the FSIN Office in the Vladimir Region said that Navalny underwent a medical examination in a colony, as a result of which his state of health was recognized as “stable” and “satisfactory”.
• On March 31, Alexei Navalny announced a hunger strike with the request to “fulfill the law” and let him “invite doctor” to him. The opposition noted that instead of medical care, he is tortured with “deprivation of sleep”, that is, “wake up eight times a night”, and that there are no other methods of struggle, except for the declaration of a hunger strike, in the colony.
• The team of Alexei Navalny announced a large spring rally for his release.