Putin's biggest critic Alexei Navalny vows to continue hunger strike despite suffering heavy cough and fever as TB sweeps through penal colony where he is being held
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has vowed to continue a hunger strike despite suffering from a heavy cough and fever as he claimed inmates in his Russian prison ward were being treated in hospital for tuberculosis.
Vladimir Putin's biggest opponent, 44, has vowed to continue a hunger strike he launched last week demanding adequate medical treatment at the harsh corrective penal colony more than 60 miles east of Moscow.
Navalny claimed prison authorities had refused to give him proper care for acute back and leg pain as his allies said they would stage a rolling protest outside his prison unless he was examined by a doctor of his choice.
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