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.

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.

The prison colony IK-2, in Pokrov in the Vladimir region 85 kilometres east of Moscow, stands out among Russian penitentiary facilities for its…