The defendant in the March 26 case began a hunger strike in support of Oleg Sentsov
Stanislav Zimovets, convicted in the March 26, 2017 protest case, began an indefinite hunger strike in support of Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov. According to Mediazona, citing Svetlana Sidorkina, a lawyer for the human rights group Agora, Zimovets began a hunger strike on May 28. He supports Sentsov, who has been on a hunger strike since May 14, and his demand for the release of all 64 Ukrainian political prisoners serving time in Russia.