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RFE/RL: Two inmates found dead in Russian prison

Published Nov. 1, 2018 at 10:51 am

The Russian prison hospital ward where Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov is being kept. Since mid-May, Sentsov went on a hunger strike to draw attention to about 70 Ukrainian political prisoners held by Russia.

Photo by Hromadske TV

Two inmates have been found dead in a prison in Russia’s Far East.

Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service (FSDIN) said on November 1 that the two men, whose identities were not disclosed, were found dead in solitary confinement “without traces of violence on their bodies.”