Doctors monitoring condition of Savchenko on dry hunger strike – Russian Federal Penitentiary Service
Ukrainian servicewoman Nadia Savchenko who has been convicted in Russia and has gone on a dry hunger strike in the Rostov detention center, is under constant medical surveillance, a source in the Federal Penitentiary Service press bureau has told Interfax.
"She [Savchenko] is under constant medical surveillance," the press bureau said.
Lawyer Mark Feygin said earlier on Thursday, that Savchenko, who had gone on a dry hunger strike, had demanded that foreign doctors be permitted to visit her.
On March 22, 2016, the Donetsk Court of the Rostov region found Ukrainian servicewoman, Nadiya Savchenko, guilty of killing Russian journalists Igor Kornelyuk, and Anton Voloshin, by a group of people by a previous concert on hatred and enmity motives, and sentenced her to 22 years in a penal colony. The court also found her guilty of attempted murder and illegally crossing the Russian border.
