JRL NEWSWATCH: “House of the dead: Does the Kremlin want Alexei Navalny to die in prison? It is beginning to look like it” – The Economist

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“… Putin may have hoped that locking up … political opponent [Navalny] in a harsh [Pokrov] penal colony would finally put him out of sight and out of mind. … [Navalny] has been on a hunger strike … protesting … the appalling conditions of his confinement … deprived … of sleep and … medical care. … [with] a fever and breathing problems. Three men in his barrack have been diagnosed with tuberculosis … common in Russian prisons. … Navalny, who survived … being poisoned with [nerve agent] Novichok … also suffer[s] severe back pain and numbness in both legs. … Russia’s prison service … labelled him an escape risk … [which] means [Navalny] can be woken every hour during the night by … shining a torch in his face. …”

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