Russia has appealed to Zanzibar to review a death sentence...

Russia has appealed to Zanzibar to review a death sentence passed by the Court of Appeal to its two citizens early in 2002 after being convicted of murdering a compatriot.
The Court of Appeal passed the capital punishment to the two Russians, Dimitrikosya Kofivich and Segrevich Otchro, in 2001 after they were convicted of killing another Russian, Alex Victorovic in 2000. Talking to the press, the commissioner of prisons in Zanzibar, Ramadhan Khatib, said the appeal has been presented by the Russian ambassador to Tanzania to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
The two Russians are at Kiinua Miguu prison awaiting the execution of the sentence after a consent by the Zanzibar President, Abeid Aman Karume.
Khatib said the fate of the two convicts is now under President Karume's discretion.
On June 3, the Russian Ambassador in Tanzania visited Zanzibar after reports that the two convicts had started a hunger strike claiming that the food they are served at Kiinua Miguu prison was not fit for human consumption.