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US authorities won a court order to force-feed an exhausted Russian immigrant who went on a hunger strike at the Arizona Immigrant Content Center.
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Yevgeny Glushchenko began to starve 19 June. During this time, he lost 25% of weight, which can lead to irreversible damage to organs and, possibly, death, wrote district judge Stephen Logan in his order on Monday.
The authorities claim that the Russian refuses to eat, explaining that he is either not hungry or will not eat until he is released from custody.
Glushchenko’s lawyers suggested another explanation, stating that their client’s protest was “not the result of a death wish,” but rather a consequence of the fact that the government does not care about his medical needs that are not listed in court documents.
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Glushchenko was taken into custody in September near Lukville, Arizona, after he and his wife penetrated the Mexican border, breaking the desert. Wife and son were released from custody.
His lawyers said in court records that Glushchenko and his wife fled Russia to Mexico after receiving "repeated threats from the government" because of his work with Western charities and refusing to pay bribes to the Federal Security Service, a Russian intelligence agency.
After his arrest, Glushchenko was detained at the immigration detention center in Eloy, south-east of Phoenix.
Russians had to be deported to their homeland commercial flight 17 June. The trip was canceled after he refused to get into the car that would take him to the airport.
Employees of the detention center tried to convince Glushchenko that refusal to eat threatens his health and may be fatal.
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Its weight dropped from 160 pounds (72 kg) at the end of January to 120 pounds (54,4 kg) in the first week of July. He missed more 60 meals.
Glushchenko was hospitalized three times with dehydration and other diseases caused by refusal to eat.
During his stay in hospital, he agreed to intravenous injections, saline and, in one case, drank apple juice. But he refused to eat, according to the protocols of the federal authorities.
The federal authorities won two court decisions that allowed Glushchenko to be forcibly fed.
Judge Logan gave an emergency order after the Russian remained in the hospital after the last hospitalization.
By his order, the judge gave a permanent permit to the federal authorities to force-feed the Russian while he is in the Immigration Center or until he stops the hunger strike.
Christopher Thomas, one of Glushchenko’s lawyers in the force-feeding trial, rejected requests for comment.
The US prosecutor's office refused to comment on information about Glushchenko’s return to Russia.
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