Evgeniy Vitishko is on a hunger strike

Krasnodar ecologist Evgeny Vitishko, located in No. 2 of the Tambov region, is on a hunger strike. As on the English-language page of the “Ecological Watch for the North Caucasus” on Facebook, Vitishko went on a hunger strike after he was sent to a punishment cell (punishment cell) on July 31. On August 3, he was released from the isolation ward, but continues to refuse food. The reason for his placement in the punishment cell, according to Ekovakhta, was that Vitishko kept canned food in his bag, which other prisoners also do, since there is nowhere else to store food. Placement in a punishment cell may cause Vitishko to be transferred from a general regime colony.

colony-settlement is reported to colony-settlement Meanwhile, it is currently expected that a meeting will be held in the presidium of the Krasnodar Regional Court to consider the complaint of the Krasnoyarsk Regional Prosecutor's Office, which challenged the decision to replace Vitishko's suspended sentence with a real one. It is not yet known when exactly the hearing will take place: as the environmentalist’s lawyer Marina Dubrovina said, for the trial, her client should have been transferred to a pre-trial detention center equipped with a video conferencing system, but this has not yet happened. According to Dubrovina, the administration of the colony is “behaving strangely”: knowing that a court hearing was expected in the Krasnodar Regional Court, for a long time they did not intend to transport Vitishko.

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