From NYpost.com…
Russia’s penitentiary service said Monday that it was transferring ailing dissident Alexei Navalny, who is on the 20th day of a hunger strike, to a prison hospital — amid grave fears for his health.
The decision comes a day after the US threatened the Kremlin with “consequences” if President Vladimir Putin’s major domestic opponent dies behind bars, according to Agence France-Presse.
Navalny’s private doctors warned during the weekend that he could die at “any minute.”
Russian prison authorities, who have barred the 44-year-old’s own medical team from visiting him, said its doctors had decided to move him to a medical facility on the premises of another penal colony in Vladimir, a city about 110 miles east of Moscow.
