Russian opposition leader Navalny discharged from hospital

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: AP

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was discharged from a hospital on Monday even though his physician raised suspicions of a possible poisoning.

Details about Navalny's condition were scarce after he was rushed to a hospital Sunday morning with a suspected allergy attack from a detention facility where he was serving a 30-day sentence for calling an unsanctioned protest. Navalny was arrested several days before a major opposition rally last Saturday that ended with nearly 1,400 people detained.

Tensions were high in Moscow on Monday as dozens of protesters remained in custody and the opposition called for a new rally over the weekend.

Dr. Anastasiya Vasilyeva, who has been Navalny's physician for several years, told reporters Monday afternoon that the politician had been discharged from the hospital and sent back to the detention facility before the necessary tests were run on him.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russian-opposition-leader-navalny-discharged-from-hospital/ar-AAF0J0Z

[DetlefK]

1. Not at all suspicious. Sent to hospital and back without tests.

[Bayard]

2. I'm surprised he's lived this long

[Leghorn21]

3. From Bill Browder:

Russian authorities return Alexei Navalny, Putin’s arch
nemesis, from the hospital to the same jail cell that his
doctors described as toxic and possibly poisoned where
Navalny experienced an extreme physical reaction including
puss from one of his eyes

Link to tweet

Hey big brave Putin!! - why is this man in jail in the first place, motherfucker??

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. Sergei Magnitsky:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Magnitsky

Magnitsky was arrested and imprisoned at the Butyrka prison in Moscow in November 2008 after being accused of colluding with Hermitage.[5] Held for 11 months without trial,[5] he was, as reported by The Telegraph, "denied visits from his family" and "forced into increasingly squalid cells."[14] He developed gall stones, pancreatitis and calculous cholecystitis, for which he was given inadequate medical treatment during his incarceration.[5] Surgery was ordered in June, but never performed; detention center chief Ivan P. Prokopenko later said that he "...did not consider Magnitsky sick... Prisoners often try to pass themselves off as sick, in order to get better conditions."[15]

On 16 November 2009, eight days before he would have had to be released if he were not brought to trial, Magnitsky died. Prison officials at first attributed his death to a "rupture to the abdominal membrane" and later to a heart attack.[5] Reporters learned that Magnitsky had complained of worsening stomach pain for five days prior to his death and that by the 15th, he was vomiting every three hours, and had a visibly swollen stomach.[15] On the day of his death, the prison physician, believing Magnitsky had a chronic disease, sent him by ambulance to and later transferred him to Matrosskaya Tishina prison's medical unit, which was equipped to help him.[16] But the surgeon there—who described Magnitsky as "agitated, trying to hide behind a bag and saying people were trying to kill him"—prescribed only a painkiller, and left him to receive a psychiatric evaluation.[15] Magnitsky was found dead in his cell a little over two hours later.

According to Ludmila Alekseeva, leader of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Magnitsky had died from being beaten and tortured by several officers of the Russian Ministry of Interior.[17] The official death certificate stated "closed cerebral cranial injury" as the cause of death (in addition to the other conditions mentioned above), and the post-mortem examination showed numerous bruises and wounds on Magnitsky's legs and hands. Another post-mortem from 2011 summarized the death as being caused by "traumatic application of the blunt hard object (objects)" as confirmed by "abrasions, ecchymomas, blood effusions into the soft tissues".[18]

Journalist Owen Matthews described Magnitsky's suffering in Moscow's Butyrka prison:


According to [Magnitsky's] heartbreaking prison diary, investigators repeatedly tried to persuade him to give testimony against Hermitage and drop the accusations against the police and tax authorities. When Magnitsky refused, he was moved to more and more horrible sections of the prison, and ultimately denied the medical treatment which could have saved his life.[19]

[ck4829]

5. K&R

[cp]

6. Alexei Navalny is one of my heroes

May he survive and thrive. We need to keep worldwide attention on him. Guy's got a lot of courage

[The Blue Flower]

7. The media must keep its spotlight on this

Putin and his puppet must know that we're watching.