Kremlin dismisses call from Navalny's wife to free jailed critic for medical reasons
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Friday it would ignore a call by jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny's wife to have her husband freed to receive urgent medical treatment and said his prison conditions could be worse.
Navalny, one of President Vladimir Putin's most prominent critics, said on Thursday that being woken up by a guard every hour during the night amounted to torture and that an appeal to be treated for acute back and leg pain had been refused in a deliberate attempt to run him down.
Yulia Navalnaya, his wife, called on Putin to free her husband so he could be treated by doctors he trusted.
But Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday the Kremlin would be leaving her appeal without a response since such matters were handled by the federal prison service.
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