The last argument

Shestun will starve to the end

The wife of the ex-head of the Serpukhov district, Alexander Shestun, posted on the network a photo of her husband, received by her from an anonymous user and, in her opinion, about two weeks ago in the special block of the city hospital No. 20, where her husband was temporarily transferred from SIZO-1. In the photo, which was taken secretly from behind (obviously by someone from the medical staff), a completely exhausted person, almost a mummy, sits in a wheelchair.

The hunger strike of the Shestun with a small break has been lasting 170 days. Periodically, he agrees to drink water and allows himself to put drops for himself, but then again declares “dry”. He falls into fainting while familiarizing themselves with the case materials, which the investigation also provides, as mocking droppers: dosage, starting from the first volumes, where only general documents are contained, they cannot be concluded on the merits of the evidence that the accusation is going to operate in court.

Apart from the lawyers and once received his wife’s date, only Mikhail Fedotov speaks with Shestun, who visited him in the investigative insulators 9 times (the last - August 28). He persuades the prisoner to stop the hunger strike and tries to fulfill those of his requirements or requests that, in principle, are fulfilled: for example, at the insistence of the head of the HRC in hospital No. 20, a full examination of his body was carried out.

But the examination is not a treatment, and even more so, is not a salvation for a person who decided to die and directly declares it.

He cannot finally formulate the requirements in the case of which is ready to stop the hunger strike. Of course, he is scared, of course, his mind does not submit to him not quite, and this is in no way mockery, but a clinical picture. But if Shestun could decompose his claims to the ruthless judicial investigative system by points, then there would be no need to resort to such an extreme agent. This is the same general protest, which in the summer of this year brought thousands of Muscovites on the streets: a cry of truth and justice in the face of Leviathan - and he does not even have organs with which he could hear it.

The state, in principle, forgot how to listen to people and talk with them, its symbol is a cyborg in a “spacesuit” without a face.

“Kill against the wall. Want? “Kill!” ... So for someone it will be even easier (they think so).

Shestun is not a child to “demand” a fair consideration of his criminal case. It has been foreseen, and this was already shown by the “civil lawsuit”, with the help of which the Prosecutor General and the Investigative Committee, regardless of any principles of law, burned out all the paths along which help and his family could act. And no honeymark will help him, no illusions: everything that Fedotov had enough for is to deliver a TV, borrowed in his own country house. Of course, we will still discuss the details of the prosecution, when they become more understandable, but this will not affect anything, and not the fact that Shestun himself will live before.

I recognized him quite well since the first publication (10 years). He discussed with me the possibility of publishing audio recordings from the presidential administration, which, apparently, predetermined his fate. This bet did not win, but in his nature he could not help but make her, believing that this was his last trump card.

“I can't break,” he explained to me his reasons. - How will I look into the eyes of people then? "

In the old way, this was called "honor", and they died for it. It turns out that that trump card was not yet the last, there is one more in stock: his own life. He cannot just sit and wait for them to deign to pronounce a conviction to him. He already wrote a book in prison - what else remains? And he makes his bet without any discounts.

Of course, I in no way want him to death, although I do not consider myself the right to dissuade him from this last argument. Unlike the investigation arguments, at least one -sided, it is legal. What and to whom will he prove this? But then we'll see.