Darya Polyudova has declared a hunger strike.

Krasnodar activist Darya Polyudova, serving a sentence in a women's penal colony in Kostroma, has declared a hunger strike and is drinking only water.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," in March 2024, Kuban activist Darya Polyudova, serving a sentence on extremism charges, was transferred from a penal colony in Kabardino-Balkaria to a pretrial detention center in Volgograd. Several Volgograd residents, at the request of the activist's mother, donated food to Polyudova. In May of that year, Polyudova was delivered to a penal colony in Kostroma and transferred to strict conditions. Human rights activists reported that Polyudova was attacked by an inmate in the colony. In late August, Polyudova complained that the prison administration where she was serving her sentence was allowing only one phone call per week. The activist calls her mother weekly and is unable to contact her lawyer due to the restrictions.

Kuban activist Daria Polyudova is protesting the constant pressure in the prison colony: she currently has six reprimands and a fine, so she could be sent to solitary confinement and then transferred to strict conditions, the Activatica.org project reports on its Telegram channel.

Furthermore, Daria complained that her things were being stolen, and the reprimand for "unscrupulous attitude toward work" was provoked by the administration itself, which had previously reduced Polyudova's production quota in the sewing workshop, the project clarified.