Alexei Navalny: was Russian opposition leader poisoned?

Navalny suffers ‘acute allergic reaction’ as more 1,000 people arrested in Moscow following anti-Putin demonstration

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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny attends a court hearing in Moscow in June
(Image credit: Vasily Maximon/AFP/Getty Images)

Russia’s most high-profile opposition leader has been hospitalised after suffering a suspicious allergic reaction while in police custody, less than a day after more than a thousand anti-Putin protesters were arrested in Moscow.

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