Alexei Navalny is adamant about continuing his hunger strike despite symptoms of a bad cough and a fever. Alexei is one week into his hunger strike in protest of prison officials denying him access to medical attention.
Alexei is reportedly suffering from acute back pain and sleep deprivation according to his lawyers. Alexei disclosed that there is an outbreak of tuberculosis amongst inmates with as many as 15 prisoners hospitalized.
He expressed the poor conditions of the prison via instagram as below
This is what our ‘ideal, exemplary colony’ looks like. Any prisoner prays to God not to get here, but inside there are unsanitary conditions, tuberculosis, lack of medications. Looking at the awful plates, in which they put our gruel, I am generally surprised that there is no Ebola virus here yet,
I have a legally guaranteed right to invite a specialist doctor at my own expense. I will not give it up, prison doctors can be trusted just as much as state TV,” he added.
Alexei Navalny
Alexei is currently in custody for reportedly violating the terms of a probation in a 2014 ruling when he received a sentence of three and a half years.