NEWSLINK: “Savchenko kept in individual cell, has ceased hunger strike” – UNIAN (Kyiv)

Nadiya Savchenko file photo, adapted from image at osce.usmission.gov

“Tetiana Protorchenko, the press secretary of Ukrainian Member of Parliament Nadiia Savchenko, who has been arrested on charges of plotting a coup, has said the lawmaker is kept in a single confinement cell of a detention center. ‘Nadiia is in an individual cell, she takes a shower once a week. She ceased her hunger strike two weeks ago for taking a lie detector test. Before that, she had been on hunger strike for more than two months. So, she is on a special diet right now. The diet is strict and limited, she has lost a lot of weight,’ Protorchenko commented on the 107th day of Savchenko’s detention, according to the Ukrainian news outlet Obozrevatel. …”

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