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		</div><p>A lawyer for imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has complained of serious back and leg pain in custody, says doctors have found him to be suffering from a double hernia.</p>
<p>Olga Mikhailova told the independent TV channel Dozhd that Mr Navalny also is beginning to lose sensation in his hands.</p>
<p>Mr Navalny went on a hunger strike last week to protest against what he called poor medical care.</p>
<p>On Tuesday, the leader of the Navalny-backed Alliance of Doctors union was detained by police after trying to get into the prison to talk to doctors.</p>
<p>Mr Navalny, 44, is Russian President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest domestic opponent.</p>
<p>He was arrested in January upon returning to Moscow from Germany, where he spent five months recovering from a nerve-agent poisoning that he blames on the Kremlin.</p>
<p>Russian authorities have rejected the accusation.</p>
<p>Still, labs in Germany and elsewhere in Europe confirmed that Mr Navalny was poisoned with the Soviet-era Novichok nerve agent.</p>
<p>A Russian court ordered Mr Navalny in February to serve 2 1/2 years in prison for violating the terms of his probation, including when he was convalescing in Germany, from a 2014 embezzlement conviction.</p>
<p>Mr Navalny has rejected the conviction as fabricated, and the European Сourt of Human Rights found it “arbitrary and manifestly unreasonable”.</p>
<p>Authorities transferred Mr Navalny last month from a Moscow jail to the IK-2 penal colony in the Vladimir region, 53 mileseast of the Russian capital.</p>
<p>The facility in the town of Pokrov stands out among Russian penitentiaries for its especially strict inmate routines, which include standing at attention for hours.</p>
<p>Within weeks of being imprisoned, Mr Navalny said he developed severe back and leg pains and was effectively deprived of sleep because a guard checks on him hourly at night.</p>
<p>He went on a hunger strike on March 31, demanding access to proper medication and a visit from his doctor.</p>
<p>Russia’s state penitentiary service has said that Mr Navalny is receiving all the medical help he needs.</p>
<p>Ms Mikhailova did not specify where Mr Navalny’s hernias are located, but said one of them is difficult to treat and that a neurologist consulted by Mr Navalny’s organisation said the treatment prescribed in the prison was ineffective.</p>
<p>In an Instagram post on Monday, Mr Navalny said three of the 15 people he is housed with have been diagnosed with tuberculosis, a contagious disease that spreads through the air. He said he had a strong cough and a fever with a temperature of 38.1 degrees Celsius (100.6 F).</p>
<p>On Monday, the state penitentiary service said Mr Navalny had been the prison’s sanitary unit after a checkup found him having “signs of a respiratory illness, including a high fever”.</p>
<p>Ms Mikhailova said that Mr Navalny’s fever had lowered, but he is still coughing and is weak from the hunger strike.</p>
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