Political prisoner Klykh goes on hunger strike – human rights activist

Ukrainian political prisoner Stanislav Klykh, who is serving a 20-year sentence in Russia, went on hunger strike.

“Today Stanislav Klykh’s mother called me and said that he had gone on a hunger strike. So he told her on the phone. He just can’t stand it anymore. Neither the cold in prison cell, nor the bad food which makes him sick all the time, and most importantly, oblivion!” human rights activist Tatyana Shchur posted on Facebook with reference to the prisoner's mother.

According to the activist, the political prisoner’s hunger strike is “a cry for help addressed to the new president.”

As reported, on May 26, 2016, a court in Chechnya sentenced Mykola Karpyuk to 22.5 years in prison and Stanislav Klykh to 20 years in prison. They were found guilty of murdering Russian servicemen in Grozny in 1994-95. At the same time, the prosecution did not submit any evidence that Klykh and Karpyuk had been in Chechnya during that period.

About 100 Ukrainian political prisoners are held in prisons in Russia and the annexed Crimea, including Ukrinform journalist Roman Sushchenko, who was sentenced in the Russian Federation to 12 years in a maximum security penal colony on spying charges.

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