Shein is ready to stop a hunger strike

The ex-candidate of Astrakhan mayor Oleg Shein said that he would begin to leave the hunger strike immediately after the release of his arrested supporters. “As soon as my supporters are released, I will drink a glass of juice for a second time in 37 days and start a way out of a hunger strike,” RIA Novosti quotes Shein’s statement on a Saturday rally in Kirov Square, where about a thousand people gathered, according to Novaya Gazeta.

According to the ex-candidate in mayor, four activists of his headquarters were detained on Friday only because they were in T-shirts with the inscription "Our mayor Shein." Three of them were sentenced to three days of administrative arrest on charges of disobedience to the police. Lawyers were not allowed to see a meeting of the peace court, the judge refused to view the video. On Saturday morning, another supporter of Shein received 5 days of arrest. The leader of “Fair Russia” Sergei Mironov said at the Saturday rally that he “held negotiations with the magistrate court” regarding the arrest of Shein's supporters.

On Friday, Shein welcomed the statement of the head of the Central Election Commission Vladimir Churov, who admitted that in Astrakhan the violations in the elections were in 128 plots out of 203. "The local prosecutor’s office, who had previously revealed violations in 5 sites, in the dirty shameful puddle,” Shein wrote in his blog. At the same time, Churov denies the presence of falsifications, he emphasizes that we are talking about procedural violations. “The word“ falsification ”means“ falsification ”. That is, it is a correspondence of protocols, when at first they honestly counted, and then converted to TIK (territorial election commission),” Shein explained. “In Astrakhan, they simply rewritten. We simply did not show marks in ballots. This made it possible to draw any results, and there were no protocols to sign it. need to".

At a press conference on Friday, Churov demonstrated numerous videos from the Astrakhan sites in which observers were driven away, did not allow to watch marks in ballots, removed members of the commissions with a decisive voice.

“Now I’m sure that the court will decide on the cancellation of the elections in Astrakhan,” Shein wrote on Friday. “Moreover, I am convinced that it will be a Russian court, and not the ECHR. Otherwise, we will look ridiculous as the country, and our justice is completely discredited - how to recognize the elections as legal if the calculation procedure has been violated, according to the CEC, in 70% of cases?” This week, the court accepted Shein’s claim for the abolition of the results of the mayor of Astrakhan, the first meeting was scheduled for April 26. Videos from all polling stations of the city were attached to the lawsuit. Shein for more than a month has achieved from Rostelecom access to the notes of webcam.

"The crisis in Astrakhan will help hold the elections more honestly in the country," says Shein. He welcomed Churov’s statement that webcams showed their effectiveness in the elections, and the promise of the head of the CEC to expand the use of the Coobas. Shein thanked everyone who supports his struggle.

According to Shein, other participants in the hunger strike feel normally, a week ago they began to drink juices. Shein himself lost 13 kilograms during a hunger strike. “I feel very tired. There are no painful sensations,” he writes on the blog.