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Six doctors, CNN correspondent detained outside Alexei Navalny’s prison
Six doctors from the Navalny-backed Alliance of Doctors have been detained in front of the prison in Pokrov where Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is currently imprisoned.
Key points:
- Navalny’s supporters demand he be allowed to see a doctor of his choosing
- His personal physician was refused permission to enter prison grounds or meet local medical staff
- Three people on Navalny’s ward have tuberculosis
Navalny’s personal physician Anastasiya Vasilyeva is among the detained people, as well as an international CNN correspondent.
It was not immediately clear why any of the detainees were held.
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