MOSCOW (Reuters) – Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has declared a hunger strike in order to persuade the prison in Russia holding him to provide him with proper medical care, according to a post on his Instagram account on Wednesday.
“I have declared a hunger strike demanding that the law be upheld and a doctor of my choice allowed to visit me,” Navalny said in the post, which was published via his lawyers.
(Reporting by Anton Zverev; writing by Vladimir Soldatkin; Editing by Andrew Osborn)
