The daughter of jailed Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny says her father’s health is deteriorating.
Speaking to CNN’s Jim Acosta on Saturday from the White House Correspondent’s Dinner, Dasha Navalnaya described the situation as “incredibly difficult.” “He is doing as well as he can do in a Russian prison which doesn’t have the best conditions,” she said. “His prison facility guards are taking away his food,” she added. “His health is deteriorating and we are doing everything we can to get him the attention he needs.
In 2020, he was poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok – an act he and Western officials blamed on the Kremlin. After a five-month stay in Germany recovering from the Novichok poisoning, Navalny returned to Moscow in 2021 and was immediately arrested for violating probation terms imposed from a 2014 case. Dasha Navalnaya said that it was important for her to attend the White House Correspondents Dinner because “America as a country represents freedom of speech, freedom of political expression.
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