Jailed Kremlin critic Navalny moved to medical facility over possible respiratory illness -Izvestia

By James Oliphant and Chris Kahn Posted on April 5, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny attends a court hearing earlier to appeal a court decision to change his suspended sentence to a real prison term

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been moved to a medical facility to be treated for a possible respiratory illness and has been tested for the coronavirus, the Izvestia newspaper cited the prison service as saying on Monday.

Navalny said earlier that he had a high temperature and a bad cough, and that three of the 15 inmates in his Russian prison ward were being treated in hospital for tuberculosis.

(Reporting by Anton Zverev; writing by Vladimir Soldatkin; editing by Chris Reese)