The person involved in the case of participation in the Right Sector went on a hunger strike in solidarity with Sentsov

Ukrainian military man Alexander Shumkov, accused of participating in the Right Sector, went on a hunger strike in solidarity with the convicted director Oleg Sentsov. Elena Glushko talks about this on Facebook.

wrote Shumkov is now in Bryansk. He is accused of participating in the activities of the extremist organization “Right Sector”, banned in Russia (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). According to his relatives, in 2014 Shumkov worked as a security guard for the leader of the Right Sector, Dmitry Yarosh, but at the time of his arrest he was not a member of the organization. In addition, as Memorial, Shumkov took part in the Right Sector only on the territory of Ukraine, being its citizen.

SIZO-1 reports that on May 14, Sentsov declared an indefinite hunger strike demanding the release of 64 Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia. - On August 25, 2015, Oleg Sentsov and Alexander Kolchenko were respectively sentenced to 20 and 10 years in a maximum security colony for terrorist acts in the form of setting fire to the door of the United Russia office in Crimea, as well as for allegedly preparing for terrorist acts and illegal trafficking in explosives . sentenced - a letter from the director to human rights activists: “I even saw Lake Baikal from the window of an air prison on a charter flight Yakutsk - Irkutsk.” OVD-Info published