The United Nations has expressed concern about the health of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny

The UN rapporteur on torture, Alice Edwards, expressed concern on Wednesday about the health of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.currently in prison and who, according to the expert, could be subjected to prolonged periods of isolation in prison.

Edwards said in a statement that he had received reports that The Russian politician has been impeached for 114 days on 11 occasions“a period which, if confirmed, would be disproportionate.”

The expert recalls that Navalny suffers from chronic spinal cord and other neurological problems, which is why he “must immediately receive appropriate care, which includes frequent check-ups in a civilian hospital.”

Edwards also referred to the cases of three Navalny collaborators also arrested in Russia, Lilia Chernysheva, Vadim Ostanin and Daniel Golodny, cases that “must be investigated promptly, fully and impartially,” he said in the statement.

discount, 46 years old, He was in jail for two years and three months.He was awarded the Sakharov Prize by the European Parliament in 2022.

He’s serving a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence for fraud, although when he was already serving this he was sentenced to nine more years in another case involving the illegal diversion of donations.

In 2020, he spent several months in treatment in Germany after surviving nerve agent poisoning, which he blamed on Russian President Vladimir Putin, and upon his return to Russia, he was arrested, tried and convicted.

Russian dissident and journalist Vladimir Kara-MurzaIn April a Russian court sentenced the 25-year-old to prison, on remand for a year and charged with treason and two other criminal counts.

Imposing the punishment of Kara Mirza 25 years in prison to meet in one Maximum security prison With subsequent restriction of freedom for a period of one year and six months, ”according to the verdict, which was read out by Judge Sergei Podobrigorov.

The conviction of the prominent dissident generated great expectations and gathered nearly a hundred journalists and diplomats in the building of the Moscow Metropolitan Court, according to the digital portal Midfielder.

In his last intervention, Kara-Murza emphasized that “Do not regret anythingand that he “loves Russia,” according to his lawyer, Maria Eismon.

The court also fined the opponent 400,000 rubles (about $5,000) and He was banned from practicing journalism for seven years.

Kara-Murza, 41 years old, was found charged with high treasona crime punishable by up to 20 years in prison, dissemination of false information about the actions of the Russian military in Ukraine and cooperation with an NGO declared undesirable by the Russian judiciary.

(with information from EFE)

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