Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, Alexey Navalny, has been hospitalized after falling ill in a Moscow jail, according to his spokeswoman.
Navalny was taken by ambulance to the hospital early Sunday morning after suffering what authorities said was a “severe allergic reaction,” the spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh wrote on Twitter.
Navalny, 43, is currently serving a 30 day detention after being arrested and convicted of calling for an unauthorized opposition demonstration this week in Moscow. The protest, which went ahead on Saturday, saw police arrest more than 1,000 people in a harsh crack down. “Judging by everything, Alexey has exactly the same symptoms, and it is some kind of strange allergy,” Volkov wrote.
He is regularly jailed -- usually several times a year -- for his calls to protest, and most often given a 15 to 30-day administrative sentence.
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