Having spent 145 days without food, Oleg Sentsov stopped hungerstriking on October, 6. He was reportedly informed of the feasibility of force-feeding.
According to the Federal Penitentiary Service Deputy Director Valery Maksimenko, inspiration has not left the Ukrainian film director: Oleg Sentsov started to write a screenplay about life in prison and prisoners. He eats little, mainly cereals and dairy products.
“He will be keeping such diet for about twenty days, then ordinary prison food will be served to him,” the official said.
In the interview, Maksimenko called the threats to force-feed Sentsov ‘the course of treatment’.
“Sentsov was told that there would be a fight for his life and health and they would not let him die. The rest was his choice,” he added.
Oleg opted for an attempt to survive, Sentsov’s cousin Natalia Kaplan said on Facebook.
“No one can say whether Oleg will survive. His health is ruined. He has hypoxia, anemia, dystrophy, arrhythmia and ischemia, his kidneys may fail at any moment, his liver is enlarged, it has already started to be degraded, he has intestinal and brain issues,” she stressed.
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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