vladimir russian opposition leader alexei navalny has been transferred to a prison hospital supporters and officials said on monday 20 days into a hunger strike that has led the united states to warn moscow of serious repercussions if he should die in jail navalnys lawyer alexei liptser said after visiting him in the hospital of penal colony no 3 in the city of vladimir east of moscow that his health was deteriorating and he had again been denied access to his own doctors all the symptoms that he had before they remain the same numbness in the arms and legs back pain they arent going awaythe situation is only getting worse liptser told reuters russias prison service said navalny 44 was in a satisfactory state and he was being given vitamin therapy with his consent the kremlin said it did not have information on navalnys condition and it was not the role of president vladimir putin to monitor the health of prisoners navalnys case has further isolated moscow at a time when us president joe bidens administration has announced tougher economic sanctions and the czech republic a member of nato and the european union has expelled russian spies accusing moscow of a role in deadly 2014 explosions at an arms storage depot liptser said navalny looked weak and thinner he said he had been searched for two hours on arrival at the penal colony all that naturally has a negative effect on a starving man who already had no strength navalny ally leonid volkov said the transfer had taken place on sunday without the politicians supporters being informed ivan zhdanov head of navalnys anticorruption foundation said on twitter the move can only be understood to mean navalnys condition has worsened and worsened in such a way that even the torturer admits it the navalny camp plans mass countrywide demonstrations on wednesday from kaliningrad in russias far west to vladivostok on its pacific coast russian authorities who have broken up previous allies and arrested thousands of people said the planned protests were illegal and warned people not to take to the streetsprison sentence navalny an anticorruption campaigner who has catalogued the vast wealth accumulated by senior russian officials he brands swindlers and thieves is serving a 212 year sentence on old embezzlement charges he calls trumped up he was arrested on his return to russia in january after treatment in germany for what german authorities say was poisoning in russia with a banned nerve agent he and western governments called this an attempted assassination the kremlin denies any blame navalny went on hunger strike on march 31 to protest against what he said was the refusal of prison authorities to provide him with treatment for leg and back pain russia says he has been treated well and is exaggerating illness to gain attention the united states imposed new sanctions on russia last thursday over alleged malign actions denied by moscow including interference in last years presidential election cyberhacking and bullying