The former lawyer of Alexey Navalny, who is held in Detention Center-1 in Vladimir, experienced a sharp deterioration in health, reported the project «To Be Continued» citing his wife Lyudmila Lipcer.
The lawyer's blood pressure remains at a critically high level — 200/100, there is also discoloration of the limbs, vascular stars all over the body, pain in the kidney and liver areas, vision deterioration, headaches, according to a letter from his wife published by the project. Lyudmila Lipcer appealed to the Commissioner for Human Rights Tatyana Moskalkova with a request to urgently hospitalize Lipcer in a civilian hospital for examination and treatment.
The doctor, from whom Lyudmila Lipcer requested a conclusion, believes that the lawyer needs urgent examination in a hospital setting, and the lack of treatment may lead to irreversible tissue changes. The doctors of Detention Center-1 also consider urgent hospitalization necessary and suspect the man has cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, and thyroid disease. However, the possibilities for a full examination in the departmental medical unit are limited.
Lipcer's defense insists on the need to transfer him to a civilian hospital, as delays in providing medical assistance, including waiting for transfer, may threaten his life and health.
Alexey Lipcer has been in the detention center since October 13, 2023, on charges of participating in an «extremist» community. According to law enforcement, he, along with Vadim Kobzev* and Igor Sergunin*, «using their status when providing legal assistance to access the correctional facility, ensured regular transmission of information between leaders, members of the extremist community, and Navalny A.A., who thus continued to perform the functions of leader and head of the extremist community in planning, preparation, creating conditions, and committing extremist-oriented crimes».
In January 2025, Lipcer was sentenced to five years in a colony.
* Included in the list of «terrorists and extremists».
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