Navalny’s doctors prevented from seeing him in prison hospital

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny (Babuskinsky District Court Press Service via AP)

Several doctors have been prevented from seeing Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a prison hospital after his three-week hunger strike.

Mr Navalny was transferred on Sunday from a penal colony east of Moscow to a prison hospital in Vladimir, a city 180 kilometres (110 miles) east of the capital, after his lawyers and associates said his condition had dramatically worsened.