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Jailed Crimean film director Oleh Sentsov says that his “limbs are going numb” nearly four months into a hunger strike and that he no longer believes his ordeal in a Russian prison will have a “happy ending,” his cousin says.

“There’s a fog in my head. Everything is spinning, my body, my head, and my limbs are going numb,” Natalya Kaplan — in a Facebook post on Sept. 11 — quoted Sentsov as saying in a letter he sent her from prison.

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