The Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) published a photograph of convicted Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov with a message that he was taken to the hospital for examination, writes the BBC Russian Service. According to the Federal Penitentiary Service, on September 28 he underwent a “treatment correction.” The director is already starving...
Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov has been on a hunger strike in a Russian colony for more than 14 days since May 100. He is seeking the release of all Ukrainian political prisoners in the Russian Federation. Unsuccessful so far. And Sentsov's condition is getting worse. Attempts to obtain a pardon or exchange for Oleg Sentsov, previously sentenced to ...
A petition appeared on the White House website calling on the American government to use all levers to free the Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, imprisoned in Russia, Novoye Vremya writes. She must get 100 thousand votes by September 8 for the administration of the US President to consider it. ...
People's Deputy from the Batkivshchyna party Nadezhda Savchenko, who returned to Ukraine after almost two years of detention in a Russian pre-trial detention center, went on a hunger strike due to the “inaction of the authorities” regarding the release of captured Ukrainians. “When the issue of prisoner exchange was brought to the political plane, politicians began to fight...
The Israeli Cabinet of Ministers has passed a bill according to which prisoners who go on hunger strike will be force-fed. This bill was proposed by Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan. Back in the summer of 2014, its first version was registered under the name “Preventing damage from a hunger strike.” In the current version...
On the Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kiev on Sunday, June 7, about a hundred activists set up tents and demanded a report from the President and the Government on the work done during the year. The posters indicate that some of the demonstrators went on a hunger strike: "I am starving against the inaction of the authorities." Those present at ...