Doctors Say They Were Denied Access to Kremlin Critic Navalny

Doctors associated with jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny say they have been barred from seeing him, despite reports he is seriously ill from an ongoing hunger strike. 

According to his personal physician, Dr. Anastasia Vasilyeva, she and three other medical experts tried to visit Navalny at a prison clinic and were denied entry. They said they waited outside prison gates for hours.  "It's a show of disrespect and mockery of the doctors," Vasilyeva said in a tweet, noting Navalny's "life and health are clearly in danger."  On Sunday, Navalny was moved from a penal colony east of Moscow to the hospital at a prison in Vladimir, which is 180 kilometers east of Moscow.