Russian Police Arrest Physicians Seeking To Treat Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny
Doctors traveled to the penal colony where Navalny is imprisoned and were arrested outside its gates. Navalny is on a hunger strike to protest a lack of medical care.
MOSCOW â Russian police said Tuesday they made a number of arrests outside the prison where opposition leader Alexei Navalny, 44, is being held. Navalny began a hunger strike last week, protesting the lack of medical care for pain in his back and a loss of sensation in both legs.
Doctors allied with Navalny trekked to the gatesAnastasia Vasilyeva, the head of the independent doctors union Alliance of Doctors, and one of Navalny's physicians.
