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Kremlin Foe Navalny Extends Hunger Strike, Seeks Own Doctors

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Alexei Navalny appears in court on Feb. 12, 2021.

Alexei Navalny appears in court on Feb. 12, 2021.

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Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny is continuing his hunger strike in a prison hospital where he hasn’t been allowed to see his own doctors, one of his lawyers said Tuesday.

“He’s very emaciated,” Olga Mikhailova told reporters outside the IK-3 prison where Navalny was moved Sunday after nearly three weeks of refusing food to protest authorities’ denial of his requests to be seen by outside specialists. Over the weekend, allies warned that he was near death after a blood test showed a dangerously elevated potassium level.