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Russian Rights Ombudswoman Says Savchenko In Satisfactory Health
By RFE/RL
Russia's presidential human rights envoy has spoken by telephone to the family of Ukrainian pilot and Verkhovna Rada deputy Nadia Savchenko and has assured them Savchenko is in satisfactory health and is being monitored closely.
Representatives of rights envoy Ella Pamfilova met with Savchenko in her jail cell in Rostov-on-Don on March 6.
Savchenko was detained in Ukraine in July 2014 and was brought to Russia against her will for trial in connection with the deaths of two Russian journalists covering the fighting in Ukraine.
Her trial was adjourned on March 3 until March 9, prompting Savchenko to declare a dry hunger strike after she was not allowed to make a final statement.
Savchenko's lawyer, Nikolai Polozov, posted on Facebook that his client is in "satisfactory condition" and is not being forcibly fed or hydrated.
A group of Ukrainian doctors has applied for permission to visit Savchenko, he added.
With reporting by TASS and AFP