MOSCOW. April 18 (Interfax) - Seven activists from the Russian National Bolshevik Party, sentenced for taking over the Russian Health Ministry building last summer, have begun a hunger strike.
"The NBP activists demand that constitutional rights and human rights in Russia be observed. In addition, they demand that they be proclaimed political prisoners and that a real amnesty be announced in Russia, noting that the amnesty that is planned will only affect very few convicts," Dmitry Agranovsky, a lawyer for one of the activists, told Interfax on Monday.
"The hunger strike is not in any way related to the conditions the activists are being held in, in the Butyrskaya prison," Agranovsky said.
He said that the activists' defense is planning to send a appeal to the Moscow City Court's Presidium and the European Court on Human Rights.
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