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Russia says will move AIDS prisoner to hospital

Russia's prison service bowed to international pressure on Thursday by announcing it would transfer Vasily Alexanian, an inmate gravely ill with AIDS, to a specialist clinic.

Posted: Thursday, February 7, 2008, 9:00 (GMT)
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Russia's prison service bowed to international pressure on Thursday by announcing it would transfer Vasily Alexanian, an inmate gravely ill with AIDS, to a specialist clinic.

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has issued three instructions to the Russian authorities to move Alexanian to a hospital. He has said he will die unless he receives life-saving treatment.

Valery Zaitsev, deputy spokesman for the federal prisons service, told Reuters Alexanian, 36, would be transferred to a clinic "in the near future."



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