FILE PHOTO: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny attends a hearing to consider an appeal against an earlier court decision to change his suspended sentence to a real prison term, in Moscow, Russia February 20, 2021. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has said that being woken up by a guard every hour during the night amounts to torture and that his appeal to be treated for acute back and leg pain was refused in a deliberate attempt to run him down.
The 44-year-old opposition politician, one of President Vladimir Putin's most prominent critics, was handed a jail term of around 2-1/2 years last month in connection with a case he says was fabricated to thwart his political activities.
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