Crimean political prisoner Serhiy Tsyhypa has been on a hunger strike in captivity for a month

Crimean political prisoner Serhii Tsyhypa has been on a hunger strike for about a month.

This was reported to the Crimean Tatar Resource Center by his wife Olena Tsygipa.

According to her, her husband decided to take this step against the background of systematic neglect by the colony administration. In particular, they refused to give him the necessary medicines, despite the observance of all formalities.

"Three weeks have passed since he went on a hunger strike. He decided to influence the administration of the colony in this way, which, under various excuses, did not hand over the parcel with the medicines that I organized for him according to the prescription of the colony's medical worker," said Olena Tsygipa.

Communication with Serhiy was cut off at the end of June. His wife assumes that her husband could have been placed in a punishment cell again.

"The last letter from him was on June 25. I suspect that he is in the punishment cell again," Tsygipa added.

Crimean political prisoner and journalist from Kherson region Serhiy Tsygipa is under constant pressure in colony #3 in Skopin, Ryazan region.

The journalist was abducted on March 12, 2022, when he was on his way to Tavriysk to deliver medicine to his mother-in-law. First, he was held in a pre-trial detention center in Simferopol, and later in a colony in Russia. In October 2023, the so-called Supreme Court of Crimea sentenced Tsygipa to 13 years in prison on espionage charges. The accusation was based on the testimony of anonymous individuals and fictitious examinations by specialists cooperating with Russian special services. The trial was accompanied by gross violations of international law.

Сергій Лозовський