Russia's Navalny accuses authorities of using prison to break his health

He also posted a tweet complaining about being injected with unknown drugs.

The tweet said: "See how it works when you're not allowed to beat up someone but your leadership ordered that you do so.

"For instance, I have a problem in my spine. It is obvious what one can do to make it worse: Keep me immobile as long as possible," wrote Navalny, 46. He is able post to social media through his lawyers and friends.

"A punishment cell is a place where the person can stand or sit on an iron chair for 16 hours per day. After a month, even a healthy person will feel the effects. This is how I spent the past three months. My back hurts a lot."

Navalny stated that he had requested a doctor for over a month. He said that a doctor eventually arrived, but she only examined him for five minutes, and she refused to give him any details about her diagnosis or prescribe anything.

He said that he was then given injections. He asked about the contents and was told that they were what the doctor ordered. Vitamin B is one example.

He said that the injections were not effective and that he felt uncomfortable having to be injected with unknown drugs.

In the Twitter post, Navalny included images from his medical records. He claimed that they were released to him one month after he requested them.

In the online format, it was difficult to read the handwritten sheets. They included a reference to "degenerative-dystrophic disease of the spine" and said he had often complained about pain in his back and right hip, and of numbness in both feet. One note stated that Navalny declined to be referred to a psychiatrist.

Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's most vocal domestic critic, is a staunch opponent of the war against Ukraine.

After being poisoned by a nerve agent in 2020, he required extensive medical care in Germany.

On charges of fraud and contempt, he is currently serving 11-1/2 years in prison. He claims that he was victim to fabricated charges meant to silence him, according to his allies, Western governments and rights organizations.

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