Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov, who is now in a Russian penal colony, has stopped his 145-day hungerstriking, Valery Maksimenko, Deputy Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service, says.
According to him, Moscow’s best nutritionists have developed a special diet to help the hungerstriker.
The charge was based on the testimony of Alexey Chyrny and Gennady Afanasiev. In court Afanasiev withdrew evidence saying that he had been tortured in jail. It is impossible to swap Sentsov for any Russian prisoner in Ukraine, because after the annexation of Crimea Russia started considering the Ukrainian director a citizen of Russia.
The Ukrainian filmmaker, who demands that the Russian authorities release all Ukrainians jailed in Russia and Crimea, went on hunger strike on May, 14. There are 64 Ukrainian prisoners in Russia and Crimea. The 42-year-old prisoner has not asked president Vladimir Putin for pardon.
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