Navalny denied to learn what substance he gets injected due to back pain

Russia’s opposition politician Alexey Navalny who is currently in prison has revealed that he is receiving injections due to back pains, but is not allowed to learn what substances are used in the injections, reads his Twitter.

Navalny says he started suffering back pains after spending the last three months in a punishment cell. “For example, I have a problem with my spine. It is clear what one has to do to make the problem worse: keep me immobile as much as possible. If you lock a person up in a punishment cell, where he can either stand or sit on an iron stool for 16 hours a day, after a month in such conditions even a healthy person will undoubtedly get back pains. I’ve spent the last 3 months like this. Naturally, my back hurts a lot,” he wrote.

Navalny filed a complaint asking to be examined by a doctor, and in a month and a half the doctor, “some woman in a mask” visited him. “She takes five minutes to examine me and writes something in my medical record. When asked obvious questions like what her diagnosis is, what she prescribed for me, and even what her last name is and where she works, the woman says: ‘Take him away’. Taking me away is the only thing that is done here quickly and without any problems. After a while they started giving me some kind of injections. ‘What are you injecting?’ I ask. ‘We inject what the doctor prescribed. B vitamins, for example.’ Vitamins are great, but the injections don’t help,

and in general, I feel a little uncomfortable being injected with an unknown drug.”

Navalny asked for the name of the doctor, his diagnosis, and the name of the drug to be revealed to him, but did so in vain. He then found out he may receive a copy of his medical records, which he requested. He was provided the requested copy after a month, which turned out to be unreadable.

“And they’re all smiling, laughing and having a blast. They don’t even hide the fact that I can write as many complaints as I want to the court and Moscow, but it was Moscow that came up with it all,” the politician says.

Navalny believes that the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service, General Gostev, personally approved the entire situation.

Navalny was sent to a punishment cell for the ninth time within the last six months for using the word “fuck” in a conversation with his cellmate. He has been in a punishment cell almost constantly since August.