Kolomna activist convicted for the picture ends his dry hunger strike in the colony

Kolomna activist Valentin Sokolov, convicted for a picture on Odnoklassniki, ended his dry hunger strike in the Belgorod region on August 2. His wife Elena reported this.

IK-4OVD-InfoSokolov that a meeting to recalculate the term of detention in connection with this was scheduled for August 20, although, according to the new account, the man was supposed to be released on July 16. The activist’s lawyer, Evgeny Rudychev, filed an application for a recount of days the day after the law came into force, but some prisoners had their hearings scheduled earlier. For example, the first one took place on August 1st.

declared a hunger strike because of the new law of IK-4 Elena Sokolova said that the next day after the publication of news about the hunger strike, the colony staff took her husband to the duty officer’s room. “They filmed him and forced him to say out loud that he was giving up his hunger strike. And they forced me to sign a receipt,” says the woman. Thus, the activist stopped his hunger strike.

When Sokolov asked whether the meeting on recalculating the day to August 8 had been rescheduled, the employees replied that they did not know.

He was then allowed to call his wife. After this conversation, the woman checked the information about the postponement with her lawyer and on the court’s website, and then confirmed that the hearing was postponed to August 8.

OVD-InfoAdvocate Rudychev said that a titanium structure about 12 centimeters long was inserted into his client’s spine - this is what the man needs to lie down every two hours. The lawyer also said that Sokolov was repeatedly placed in a punishment cell. One time this happened when he left the dining room holding a piece of bread in his hands, which he could not finish. In the punishment cell, Sokolov lay down on the floor, then his stay there was extended to 15 days.

because of because - on January 12, Sokolov was sentenced to one and a half years in a general regime colony on charges of inciting hatred (Article 282 of the Criminal Code), and in March the Moscow Regional Court sentenced him to eight months. sentenced reduced - Sokolov says that he reposted the picture in Odnoklassniki with a negative comment: “How stubborn do you have to be to carry such heresy. Or they deliberately incite it. It's scary to read." But when reposting images, they are automatically saved on the page of the reposter and in the “Miscellaneous” folder, but without an accompanying inscription. This was the reason for the claims from law enforcement agencies. - Valentin Sokolov believes that the criminal case is related to his social activities. He calls himself an activist working on environmental issues and local government. In 2016, he was a candidate for deputy of the Moscow Regional Duma from the Rodina party.