Alexei Navalny ally standing for election is forced to isolate in Russian hospital’s coronavirus ward despite negative Covid-19 test - preventing her from registering Violetta Grudina faced hospitalisation on Covid ward despite negative test The ally of Alexei Navalny was prevented from registering for the election Claimed officials forced paramedics to diagnose her with pneumonia
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An ally of Alexei Navalny standing for election was prevented from registering after being forced to isolate.
Violetta Grudina faced an enforced hospitalisation in a coronavirus ward despite testing negative for the virus.
She is an ally of Kremlin critic Navalny, who was jailed on embezzlement charges in prison in February.
Grudina announced plans to run for Murmansk City Council in April, but had her office attacked and staff members detained, The Moscow Times reported.
She said on Wednesday that she was hospitalised under a court order in a Covid-19 ward,