Russia’s youngest Ukrainian prisoner faints in court after week on hunger strike

Friday, May 12, 2017 - 6:28 (EET) Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)

19-year-old Artur Panov lost consciousness during a court hearing in Rostov on the Don on May 10, a week after he declared a dry hunger strike, demanding to be returned to Ukraine. He collapsed in the cage he and recognized political prisoner Maxim Smyshlayev were held in and an ambulance needed to be called …read more

Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group