Biden Calls Navalny's Situation 'Totally Unfair' After Doctors Sound Alarm About His Condition
April 18, 2021 01:03 GMT
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U.S. President Joe Biden on April 17 called the situation of jailed Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny "unfair" after doctors and Navalny's spokeswoman warned about his deteriorating health due to a hunger strike.
"It's totally, totally unfair and totally inappropriate," Biden told reporters in Wilmington, Delaware, responding to a question about Navalny's reportedly worsening condition. Biden also noted that his situation comes amid his hunger strike and after Navalny suffered through a poisoning last summer.
Navalny's health has rapidly deteriorated and he could suffer cardiac arrest "any minute," according to his personal doctor and three other physicians, including a cardiologist, who pleaded for access to Navalny in a letter to Russia's Federal Prison Service.