The head of the Serpukhov district, Alexander Shestun, complained about the conditions in the pre-trial detention center

The head of the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region, Alexander Shestun, suspected of abuse of office, complained about the conditions in the pre-trial detention center-2 "Lefortovo". He told about this in a letter to Kogershyn Sagiyeva, a member of the Public Monitoring Commission and Dozhd journalist. on the channel's website The text of the message was published .

Shestun said that a lawyer was not allowed to see him for the second day. He also drew attention to the fact that before being transferred to Lefortovo, he settled in SIZO-5 Vodnik, where he spent more than a month.

“This is the business of the Federal Penitentiary Service. First, a person settles down, then he is transferred without reason to another pre-trial detention center. My criminal case is being handled by the RF IC, not the FSB. What a need to translate! To humiliate and create difficulties for me? I believe that the leadership of the Federal Penitentiary Service and other law enforcement agencies are taking revenge on me for my active citizenship, ”says Shestun.

According to the prisoner, he is not given warm clothes and is forbidden to cover himself with a blanket. Shestun added that he “wasn’t allowed into the bathhouse because the neighbor couldn’t go after the operation. And the condition is two or no one.

On July 18, it became known that Shestun was being transferred to the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center.

• Prior to his arrest, the head of the Serpukhov district announced threats of a criminal case because of the approval of a rally against garbage dumps. He said that he was threatened by the governor of the Moscow region Andrei Vorobyov.
• At the end of May, were two deputies of Alexander Shestun searched. The interlocutor of Radio Liberty said that during the search one of them was told that she would “sit together with Shestun in the same cell.”
• to Shestun On June 13, they came with a search, and then detained him in the case of abuse of power. His press secretary reported that about 40 masked people with machine guns entered Shestun's house, where there were minor children. Two days after the arrest, the Basmanny District Court arrested Shestun until 13 August.
• At a meeting to appeal against the arrest, the man spoke about the threats from the FSB officer Ivan Tkachev and the head of the presidential department for domestic policy Andrei Yarin. “If you go to the polls, we will imprison you; if you fight against landfills, we will imprison you,” conveyed the essence of the threats. Shestun