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Navalny, Awaiting Appeal, Shares Suspicions He May Have Been Poisoned

RFE/RL

   Russian opposition activist Aleksei Navalny says he shares the
   suspicions of his lawyer and doctor that he may have been poisoned in
   prison.

   Commenting as he awaits a July 30 appeal hearing over his 30-day jail
   sentence for violating protest laws, Navalny, who had just returned to
   detention after being treated in hospital for severe swelling of the
   face and skin rashes, raised questions over his sudden illness.

   "Are they really such absolute idiots to poison you in a place where
   suspicions point only at them?" Navalny wrote in a post on his website.