Navalni: Russia's prison service says "more or less recovered" from hunger strike

The Russian prison service said on Thursday that the opposition Alexei Navalni "has more or less recovered" from the hunger strike that he carried out for about three weeks in April to demand that he see a doctor. his health, I can say that it is normal. He has more or less recovered, ”said the head of Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN), Alexander Kalashnikov. «It weighs 82 kilos. It eats normally. He has the possibility to communicate with his family, "he said, as reported by the Russian news agency Sputnik. He also stressed that the authorities do not apply additional sanctions against Navalni because he does not commit infractions and added that" they do not seek to humiliate him in any way. way or complicate his life ”, before emphasizing that he is in the same conditions as the rest of the inmates. Navalni began his hunger strike on March 31 and ended it on April 23, a day after a group of doctors Call for him to end his protest, arguing that otherwise, "they will soon have no one to heal." The opponent was arrested on 18 January upon arrival at Moscow airport for failing to comply with probation after spending months in Germany recovering from a poisoning that the prominent Russian opponent blames directly on the country's president, Vladimir Putin.