INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A transgender woman on trial for allegedly justifying terrorism online has gone on a hunger strike to protest her treatment in jail, a
prisoner rights groupsaid Monday.Olga Sivushkova, 37, was arrested in January on accusations of sharing a link to an interview with a
region.Sivushkova, who is being tried by a St
Petersburg military court, faces up to seven years in prison on charges of publicly justifying terrorism online.According to the independent
news outlet Sotavision, Sivushkova accused investigators of illegally searching her home and her court-appointed attorney of tricking her
that she was a police informant in a high-profile criminal case where seven young activists wereimprisoned and handed suspended sentences on
charges of plotting to overthrow President Vladimir Putin.She has since changed her name from Olga Pshenichnikova to Olga Sivushkova.Police
said theyfound an Israeli passport during searches issued to Andrei Pshenichnikov, a male name that Sivushkova held before transitioning,
according to the news website Mediazona.The Pshenichnikov family moved to Israel from Tajikistan when Sivushkova was a 13-year-old boy,
Petersburg military court offered Sivushkova to close the rest of the trial to the public to avoid disclosing medical records related to her
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