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Moscow (dpa) - The Kremlin opponent Alexej Navalny, imprisoned in the penal camp, has complained of a further deterioration in his health.
He was attested to have a fever of 38.1 degrees and a "strong cough" - he will still continue the hunger strike he started a few days ago, according to Nawalny's Instagram account on Monday.
Three of his fellow prisoners had already been taken to hospital for tuberculosis.
In the evening it was announced that the opposition had received medical help.
Navalny's lawyer Olga Mikhailova told the independent Internet broadcaster Doschd that the opposition leader had already lost 13 kilograms during the time in the prison camp.
According to a report in the Izvestia newspaper, the prison system ordered the 44-year-old to be examined for signs of a respiratory disease and high temperature.
A corona test was also carried out.
Navalny is "under the supervision of medical personnel," said the authority.
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The opposition politician, who is imprisoned in a penal camp around 100 kilometers east of Moscow, has been reporting for a long time about severe back pain and paralysis in one leg.
Last Wednesday, Navalny said he had gone on a hunger strike to protest the lack of medical care.
The new general secretary of Amnesty International, Agnes Callamard, turned to Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin about the case, as she wrote on Twitter.
Navalny is threatened with slow killing in Russia.
Navalny was sentenced to several years in a prison camp in February in a much-criticized process.
The Russian judiciary has accused him of violating registration requirements in an earlier criminal case while he was recovering from an assassination attempt with the neurotoxin Novitschok in Germany.
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According to a survey by the independent opinion research institute Levada, almost a third of Russians (29 percent) consider the verdict to be “rather unfair”.
Significantly more respondents (48 percent) said, however, that Navalny was probably rightly convicted.
Navalny fell into a coma last August after collapsing on a domestic flight.
He was treated for weeks in the Charité Clinic in Berlin.
The prominent member of the opposition blames a "killer squad" of the domestic secret service FSB under the orders of President Putin for the attack on him.
Putin and the FSB rejected the allegations.
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