The CEO of Berlin's Charite Hospital Karl Max Einhaeupl (L) and leading doctor Kai-Uwe Eckardt address a press conference on September 18, 2018 in Berlin, on the health of Pyotr Verzilov, a member of Russian punk band Pussy Riot, who was flown to Germany
BERLIN: An anti-Kremlin activist who is in Berlin for treatment was likely poisoned, a doctor said on Tuesday, adding that while the man was no longer in danger he still needed intensive medical care.
Pyotr Verzilov, publisher of a Russian online news outlet and affiliated with the anti-Kremlin band Pussy Riot, lost his sight, hearing and ability to walk but is doing better since he arrived in Berlin for treatment on Saturday, two friends said on Sunday.
"It is highly probable that he was poisoned," a doctor at the Charite hospital in Berlin told a news conference, adding that there was no other explanation so far as to why Verzilov was in such a condition.
