Savchenko announces termination of dry hunger strike

The Ukrainian aviator Nadezhda Savchenko has announced, after meeting her advocate in the SIZO (pre-trial prison), that she would start drinking water, but she would continue her hunger strike. Earlier, conflicting information was received on Savchenko's dry hunger strike.

Today, Mark Feigin, a Savchenko's advocate, has announced, after visiting her in SIZO-3 of the city of Novorossiysk, that her client had stopped her dry hunger strike, while continuing the "ordinary" hunger strike.

Then, Savchenko's sister read out the response appeal of her sister in the Ukrainian language. It states that she "changes his dry hunger strike for the hunger strike with water," the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Earlier, the "Moscow is Speaking" has distributed two comments, whose authors expressed distrust of the data on a dry hunger strike. Maria Kannabikh, the head of the Help Fund to Prisoners under the FSIN, said that according to her information after a meeting with her colleagues, Savchenko agreed to start drinking water.

In her turn, Larisa Alekseeva, a general practitioner, said that after six days of the dry hunger strike Savchenko would have experienced a noticeable complete dehydration of the organism.

On March 9, Savchenko said that she would resume her dry hunger strike after the passage of her sentence, which has not yet been passed.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.