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The workers of White Bear penal colony where Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov is held in Russia are worried about his health and continuously try to make him stop his indefinite hunger strike, says Sentsov’s lawyer Dmitry Dinze.

“The penal colony’s [employees] are concerned about his health the most,” Dinze told Hromadske. “They think he’s approaching irreversible changes. They say that the political reasons have now reached their end and no one’s interested in [Sentsov’s] hunger strike any longer because [in their words] ‘it’s stupid.’”

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