Germany has joined calls for jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to get proper medical treatment amid growing concerns for his health - BBC reports.
Earlier about 500 Russian doctors signed an open letter to President Vladimir Putin demanding that prison authorities stop "abusing" Navalny.
Navalny's lawyer said he had since been seen by a doctor, but was still not receiving the medicine he needed.
Navalny said he was being denied basic medication by prison officials.
A German government spokesperson said Navalny "is in urgent need of medical assistance as numerous Russian doctors have pointed out".
"We call on the Russian authorities to provide this immediately and completely," said spokeswoman Christiane Hoffmann.
Navalny's lawyer Vadim Kobzev says the anti-corruption campaigner has been suffering from chills, fever, severe cough and a low temperature in an isolation cell.
Berlin also urged Navalny's release, saying his imprisonment was based on a "politically motivated verdict".
He has spent two years in jail, often in solitary confinement. He was arrested in January 2021 upon returning from Germany, where he had been treated for a nerve agent attack in Siberia.
(Source: BBC news website, headline by Newsroom, photo from internet)
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