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Jailed Russian journalist Yelena Shkayeva, who has contributed to RFE/RL's Russia Her service and several other independent media outlets, has spent her 14 years in the Ural city. Hunger launched her strike in protest of being sentenced to a prison sentence of days. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported.
OVD-Info human rights group said on Thursday that Shukayeva was in her own hangar. "It was a protest against the judge's pandering to the fantasies of
Shukayeva was sentenced to her 14-day prison term after a court in Yekaterinburg convicted her of propagating and publicly displaying symbols of extremist groups.
