Do not eat and eat

Ecologist Evgeny Vitishko announced an unlimited hunger strike in protest against the decision of the courts to refuse too and mitigate the punishment. According to Mediazona, lawyer Sergei Loktev told about this. According to him, Vitishko, serving a sentence in IK-7 in the Tambov region, is starving since September 29. On October 8, the Tambov Regional Court will consider an appeal against the refusal of the Kirsovsky district court to mitigate the punishment of the ecologist.

On June 20, 2012, the judge of the Tuapse District Court of Kuban Galina Avji sentenced Vitishko and his colleague Suren Gazaryanto three years conditionally with a two -year trial period on charges of damage to the dance of the regional governor Alexander Tkachev. Later, a new business was opened against Gazaryan; He disappeared from Russia and received political asylum in Estonia.

On December 20, 2013, the judge of the Tuapse City Court Igor Milinchuk replaced Vitishko a suspended sentence in a colony-settlement. The criminal-executive inspection insisted on tightening the punishment to the activist. On February 12, 2014, the judge of the Krasnodar Kraisud Andrei Konnov left this decision in force .

On July 31, the judge of the Kirsanovsky district court Sergey Burchevsky refused to replace the vitishko with a coherent part of the term with a milder punishment . He referred just for the presence of out -of -the -law penalties.

On October 1, 2015, President Vladimir Putin promised to give the Prosecutor General an order to verify all the circumstances of the criminal case against Vitishko. The president said this at a meeting of the Human Rights Council in the Kremlin. Putin noted that he had already received appeals about Vitishko. “We’ll check additionally, I will ask you to check from the position of the General Prosecutor's Office, if there are violations, we will do everything to eliminate them,” Putin promised. A member of the HRC Andrei Babushkin, who said that Vitishko had announced eight disciplinary sanctions for the fact that he had a complaint to the Ombudsman Ella Pamfilova, turned to the situation with the political prisoner.