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Ukrinform: The 100th day of Oleg Sentsov’s hunger strike marked today

By UkrInform.
A woman poses for a photo with a little girl as they attend the rally in support of the Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov next to the Russian embassy in Kyiv on Aug. 21, the 100th day of Sentsov's hunger strike. Sentsov, who was illegally imprisoned and sentenced for 20 years in the Russian jail in 2015, started hunger-striking in May to draw the world’s attention to the 70 Ukrainian political prisoners kept in Russian jails. He told his cousin Natalia Kaplan in a letter she received on Aug. 8 that the end of his life is near.
Photo by Volodymyr Petrov

Today is the 100th day since the beginning of the indefinite hunger strike of Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov, announced on May 14, 2018, demanding the release of all Ukrainian political prisoners of the Kremlin.

Over the past 100 days, 42-year-old Sentsov lost about 30 kg. Sentsov has problems with his kidneys and heart, Ukrainian Human Rights Commissioner Liudmyla Denisova said after talk with his lawyer.

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