The Ukrainian pilot whose 22-year prison sentence by a Russian court last month was widely criticized as a farce is now carrying out a “dry hunger strike” to protest her detention.
Lawyers for Nadezhda Savchenko said their client had taken no food or water since her conviction formally went into effect one week ago. They said she agreed Tuesday only to a glucose drip following warnings from doctors of possible blood clots or heart stoppage.
Savchenko’s hunger strike follows her conviction on charges of complicity in the slaying of two Russian journalists covering the war in east Ukraine. The Ukrainian …read more
Source: Voice of America
