Darya Polyudova declares hunger strike in colony-settlement

Kuban activist Darya Polyudova has declared a hunger strike in a penal colony with the demands to stop provocations against her. This was reported by Tatiana Polyudova, the mother of the prisoner.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that in December 2015, the Oktiabrsky District Court of Krasnodar found Darya Polyudova guilty of public calls for separatism and extremism and sentenced her to two years in a colony-settlement.

According to Tatiana Polyudova, the mother of Darya Polyudova, the activist declared hunger strike in one of the penal colonies of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

The activist has conflicts with her cellmates, who "completely exhausted her," said Tatiana Polyudova. According to her, the activist has especially "tough relationship with a cellmate, whom Darya Polyudova considers to be a provocateur, placed by the administration of the colony-settlement." According to Tatiana Polyudova, prisoners tell her daughter that "political prisoners should be placed in separate cells."

Tatiana Polyudova claims that her daughter repeatedly addressed with that problem to the chief of the colony-settlement, but did not succeed. Darya Polyudova herself believes that "they want to toughen conditions of detention in the colony-settlement" for her, reports today the website of the human rights media project "OVD-Info" with reference to Tatiana Polyudova.

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