The head of the Serpukhov region, Alexander Shestun, stopped his hunger strike

The head of the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region, Alexander Shestun, who was arrested on charges of abuse of office, at the insistence of doctors, stopped the hunger strike. This is reported by TASS with reference to his wife Yulia Shestun.

Shestun said that on August 30, for the first time since her arrest, she was allowed to see her husband, who is in the hospital of the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center. She noted that the arrested person looks bad and has lost 20 kilograms. “At the insistence of the doctors, my husband began to slowly come out of his hunger strike, drink juices,” she told the agency. The woman also added that Alexander Shestun is “ready to continue the fight,” as he considers his arrest illegal.

Information about the end of the hunger strike is also posted on Shestun's Facebook page.

The official went on a hunger strike on July 30 after he was not allowed to participate in the election of the head of the Serpukhov district, and also prevented him from communicating with a lawyer.

• 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
• On August 27, it became known that was opened against Alexander Shestun under articles on illegal entrepreneurial activity, complicity in fraud on an especially large scale and legalization of stolen funds. a new criminal case