Ukrainian film director Oleh Sentsov, who was convicted in Russia, has said that he is ending his hunger strike from October 6 because of the threat of force-feeding.
“Due to the critical state of my health, as well as pathological changes in the internal organs that have begun, the use of force-feeding is planned in the very near future. My opinion is no longer taken into account – I allegedly am no longer able to adequately assess the level of health and danger to it,” Sentsov said in a statement distributed by his lawyer, Dmitry Dinze, on Friday.
“Force-feeding will be carried out as part of reanimation measures to save the patient’s life. In these conditions, I have to stop my hunger strike from tomorrow, that is from October 6, 2018,” the statement says.
