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The Kremlin opponent, Alexei Navalny, who is detained in the penal camp, complains that his health has deteriorated further.
He was attested to have a fever of 38.1 degrees and a "strong cough" - he will continue the hunger strike he started a few days ago, wrote Navalny on Instagram on Monday.
Three of his fellow prisoners had already been taken to hospital for tuberculosis.
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.
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 command of President Vladimir Putin, for the attack on him.
Putin and the FSB rejected the allegations.
"Navalny wants appropriate medical treatment"
The Kremlin critic Navalny, imprisoned in a Russian penal camp, has gone on a hunger strike.
Navalny is said to have severe back and leg pain and demands medical treatment.
WELT reporter Christoph Wanner reports from Moscow.
Source: WORLD