POLITICAL PRISONERS
Jailed Russian activist hospitalised over hunger strike
Moscow — Hunger-striking Russian activist Sergei Udaltsov was hospitalised on Sunday as he serves a one-month term over organising protests, said observers and his social media channels. The far-left Kremlin critic was taken to a Moscow hospital suffering from dehydration after doctors were called to his detention centre to take blood tests, five days into a hunger strike, his Facebook page said. "He was hospitalised on doctors’ orders," an official from Moscow’s public monitoring commission told the TASS news agency. "In our presence he was evacuated by paramedics," Ivan Melnikov said. Udaltsov was active in a wave of demonstrations at the end of July against deeply unpopular plans to raise the Russian retirement age. He was arrested and last week sentenced to 30 days behind bars after burning images of members of the Russian government at one of the rallies. In 2017, Udaltsov finished a four-and-a-half-year prison sentence for organising anti-Kremlin protests. Udaltsov and codefen...
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