Ukrainian pilot, MP and member of the Ukrainian
delegation to PACE Nadia Savchenko, who has been sentenced by a Russian court
to 22 years in prison, resumed hunger strike, refusing to consume both food and
water.
Savchenko's lawyer, Mark
Feygin, said on April 6 that his client's demand was "her immediate return
to Ukraine."
As UNIAN reported earlier, the
Donetsk City Court of Russia's Rostov region sentenced Savchenko to 22
years' imprisonment in a penal colony.
Savchenko, 34, was charged
with complicity in the June 2014 deaths of two Russian journalists near
Luhansk, Ukraine, as well as with illegally entering Russia.
Russian officials say she
directed mortar fire against a checkpoint manned by Russia-backed separatists
in Ukraine that resulted in the deaths of the journalists.
Savchenko denies the charges,
saying she did not recognize the Russian court or its right to try her.
She earlier
announced he had decided not to appeal the verdict and would renew her
"dry" hunger strike from April 6.
Savchenko started serving her
sentence in Russia on April 5.
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