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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnother Russian doctor who treated Alexey Navalny in 2020 after being poisoned, has died.
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Travis Akers
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Mar 28, 2021
#BREAKING: Another Russian doctor who treated Alexey Navalny in 2020 after being poisoned, has died.
Travis Akers
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President Biden was right. Vladimir Putin is a killer, @Russia.
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Another Russian doctor who treated Alexey Navalny in 2020 after being poisoned, has died. (Original Post)
soothsayer
Mar 2021
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moondust
(21,257 posts)1. Navalny being tortured in prison.
MARCH 25, 2021
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on Thursday that being woken up by a guard every hour during the night amounted to torture and that his appeal for treatment for acute back and leg pain had been refused in a deliberate attempt to run him down.
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Jailed Kremlin critic Navalny alleges sleep deprivation 'torture', lack of medical care
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on Thursday that being woken up by a guard every hour during the night amounted to torture and that his appeal for treatment for acute back and leg pain had been refused in a deliberate attempt to run him down.
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Jailed Kremlin critic Navalny alleges sleep deprivation 'torture', lack of medical care
Sleep deprivation is widely considered torture.
Putin's support for the Myanmar junta further solidifies his identity as a killer.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)2. So the guards are saying that it's necessary to wake a sleeping man
every hour because HE IS A FLIGHT RISK?
How stupid is that??
moondust
(21,257 posts)3. The absurd lying
may be getting worse thanks to Trump's 4+ years of normalizing it. Of course there is a significant history of big lies and "Pravda" in Russia.