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The lawyer announced the details of the cessation of Udaltsov hunger strike
The opposition, convicted on charges of organizing the riots, was forced to agree with the doctors and stop the hunger strike in order to avoid compulsory feeding, lawyer Violetta Volkov said.
According to her, Udaltsov signed an application for consent with medical procedures to remove him from a state of hunger strike. “In the event of his refusal, such procedures would be carried out forcibly,” Volkova noted in an interview with Interfax.
Earlier on Tuesday, the representative of the Moscow Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) Sergey Tsygankov said that Sergei Udaltsov stopped a hunger strike on the 26th day . As Tsygankov said, the convict was transferred to the administration of the SIZO Sailor Silence a statement that he is terminating the action and has no complaints about the conditions of detention.
On Monday, the lawyer Volkova wrote on Twitter that the opposition had serious health problems. Tsygankov announced this with reference to doctors.
The coordinator of the “Left Front” Sergey Udaltsov announced an unlimited hunger strike on July 24 - in protest against the sentence issued to him and demanding freedom for himself and other “Swamp prisoners”.
The Moscow City Court last month sentenced Udaltsov and his associate Leonid Razvoszhaev to four and a half years in a general regime colony on charges of “organizing riots” on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow on May 6, 2012 and in an attempt to “organize riots in other cities of Russia”.