Posted on 07/31/2019 1:36:08 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
A prominent Russian opposition leader was discharged from a Moscow hospital Monday and sent back to jail, despite claims by his doctor that he may have been poisoned by an unknown chemical agent while in custody.
Navalny was arrested several days before an opposition demonstration held on Saturday and is currently serving a 30-day sentence. More than 1,300 people were detained after protesting the exclusion of opposition candidates from Moscow's city council elections.
In 2017, he suffered a partial loss of vision after being assaulted and doused with a green antiseptic. His sight was restored after he sought treatment abroad.
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I think they want to ruin his health. This way he is alive and on that spot, but won’t have the strength to do much organizing.
A TV report said the protests are growing but at this point I don’t see this growing to a full rebellion but clearly Putin is a wee bit nervous.
Yes you are right.
Fellow activist and professional ophthalmologist Anastasia Vasilyeva, who treated Navalny after he was attacked with green dye in his eyes in 2017, added fuel to the fire by saying that she “cannot exclude a toxic injury of the skin by an unknown chemical substance administered by a ‘third person.’” However, she did not examine the patient and came to that conclusion after only seeing him “through the door” at the hospital.
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