Navalny signals end to prison hunger strike after access to civilian doctors

[sinkingfeeling]

Source: Washington Post

MOSCOW — Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny will end his hunger strike after 24 days, he said on Instagram Friday, following the advice of his doctors who warned he could soon die.

Navalny was examined at a civilian hospital Tuesday. In a letter from five physicians affiliated with Navalny, published by Russia’s independent Mediazona news outlet, they urged him to consider that medical care as sufficient for ending the hunger strike.

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[Botany]

1. I wonder if Navalny's decision to end his hunger strike got Putin to pull back from the Ukraine?

n/t

[Cracklin Charlie]

2. Good news.

His countrymen, and women, need him right now.

[soothsayer]

3. Boy he's one tough cookie

[SunSeeker]

4. What a relief! I'm so glad he is being treated by real doctors.

Get well soon Navalny. The suffering Russian people need you. The world needs you!

[pandr32]

5. Let's keep the pressure on Putin

We need to remind him he is not a friend, but a foe and treat him accordingly. He doesn't like the negative attention at all, but his buddy, the former guy, is gone.