Envoy: Filmmaker on hunger strike has heart, kidney problems
MOSCOW — Ukraine’s human rights envoy said Thursday that jailed Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov has heart and kidney problems after a hunger strike lasting more than a month.
Lyudmila Denisova said on Facebook that she spoke to Sentsov’s Russian lawyer who visited him Thursday and said that he was at a prison hospital with an unspecified heart and kidney condition.
She said she learned from the lawyer that Sentsov was drinking some 3.5 litres of water a day and was also taking another 2 litres of liquid daily through IV.
Denisova said that Sentsov had a crisis on the 26th day of his hunger strike and was taken to a hospital, where doctors proposed to force-feed him, but he refused.