
Alexey Navalny is suffering 'torture by sleep deprivation' and severe pain, lawyers say
CNN
Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny has submitted two applications to Russian prison officials through his lawyers requesting access to a doctor of his choice and to ask authorities to stop alleged "torture by sleep deprivation," his legal team said.
One of Navalny's lawyers, Vadim Kobzev, tweeted Thursday after seeing his client that the activist was not being treated properly and that a "deliberate strategy is underway to undermine his health." Navalny is imprisoned in penal colony No. 2 in Pokrov, in the country's Vladimir region, where one former inmate told CNN of harsh conditions inside.
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