Mokhnatkin went on hunger strike again

Human rights activist Sergei Mokhnatkin, convicted for the alleged use of violence against a police officer, went on a hunger strike again. As reported on the website of the movement "For Human Rights" , today Mokhnatkin's lawyer Denis Levin visited his client in SIZO-2 ("Butyrka").

According to Levin, on April 16, the administration of the pre-trial detention center held a kind of “preventive conversation” with Mokhnatkin, during which the human rights activist was reprimanded for the fact that Mokhnatkin, according to the management of pre-trial detention center-2, sabotages the work of the correctional facility and is prone to escape. After this "conversation", Sergei Mokhnatkin went on a hunger strike.

The next day, Mokhnatkin was informed that he would be transferred soon, but they did not specify to which institution he would be sent to serve his sentence. In protest, Mokhnatkin opened his veins.

According to Levin, after providing medical assistance, the human rights activist was transferred to the medical unit of SIZO-2, where people with mental disorders are kept. According to the lawyer, Mokhnatkin will be sent to the stage immediately after the stitches are removed.

Earlier, Mokhnatkin had already declared a hunger strike after he was beaten by the FSIN officers.

Recall that on December 10, 2014, the Tverskoy Court sentenced Mokhnatkin to four and a half years in prison in a strict regime colony under Part 1 of Art. 318 (use of violence not dangerous to life or health against a representative of the authorities), finding him guilty of using violence against police representatives at the actions on December 31, 2013. The Moscow City Court upheld the verdict.