For the tenth time during his imprisonment, Navalny was sent to a penal colony of a strict regime colony in the Vladimir region.



The letter published by "Meduza" states that the conditions of detention and appearance of Alexei Navalny cause great concern for his life and health.

According to doctors, the refusal of representatives of the Federal Penitentiary Service to hand over the necessary medication to the imprisoned oppositionist creates a direct threat to the life of Russian citizen Alexei Navalny.

"From a medical point of view, it is clear that Alexei Navalny does not receive sufficient medical care, and keeping him in the SHIZA (penal detention center - RS) is absolutely contraindicated in his condition," Russian doctors who signed the petition say, and remind that the right of citizens to health care and medical care is enshrined in the Constitution of Russia.

Prisoners and those serving prison sentences, according to the law, also have the right to medical care, including in civilian medical organizations of the state health care system.



In an appeal to President Putin, as the guarantor of the Constitution, Russian doctors demand that civilian doctors be allowed to visit Alexei Navalny and, if there are indications, to hospitalize him in a regular hospital for a comprehensive examination and treatment.



The letter was signed by 36 doctors, most of them from Moscow.



On January 9, it became known that on December 31, Alexei Navalny was - for the 10th time - placed in a penal institution and, thus, met the new year, 2023, in SHIZA.



Navalny's lawyer

Vadim Kobzev

wrote on Twitter that, according to his data, Navalny fell ill in SHIZA, he has a temperature and a cough.

"We are trying to give him medicine," Kobzev writes.

On December 25, Alyaksei Navalny announced that he had left SHIZ after being sent there for another 12 days.

Thus, six days passed between two sendings to the penitentiary.



Navalny has been in the strict-regime Vladimir colony since June 2022.

Additional punishments began to be imposed on him after he announced the creation of a prisoners' union in August and began to challenge the conditions of his detention.

Among the reasons for which Navalny was sent to the detention center were unbuttoned button, refusal to wash the fence, lack of jacket, obscene language, washing out of order.

  • After being poisoned with "Novichok" poison in August 2020, Alexei Navalny was being treated in Berlin.

    In early 2021, the politician returned to Russia, where he was detained just at the airport.

  • First, the oppositionist was replaced with a suspended sentence in the Yves Rochet case, and then tried in the case of defamation of a veteran (sentenced to a fine) and in the case of fraud and insulting a judge (sentenced to nine years in prison).

  • Navalny and his supporters call the criminal prosecution political.