The mother of Mikhail Kulkov, a defendant in the “Network” case, spoke about her son’s hunger strike in a punishment cell on New Year’s Day

The parents of Mikhail Kulkov, the person involved in the Network case, spoke about their son's hunger strike in the punishment cell on New Year's Eve. This is reported by "7 × 7" with reference to the mother of the accused Elena Samonina.

As Kulkov told his mother during a meeting, he had been on a hunger strike for four full days, from December 30 to January 4.

A few days before the New Year, during a search, the SIZO officers threw out the defendant's warm sleeveless jacket. In response to this, he refused to leave the cell and called the actions of the officers arbitrariness.

“They [the SIZO officers] dragged him out by the collar and promised a 'merry New Year'. On December 30, after lunch [in the isolation ward], they held a commission and put him in a punishment cell. There were ice batteries, a draft, a full oak forest, ”the publication reports the words of Samonina.

On January 4, the head of the SIZO, Oleg Ikhsanov, came to Kulkov. “Ikhsanov told how everyone is wrong, how good he is and that we need to stop starving. Misha had a discussion with him about Vasya [Kuksov] and about the other guys. To which he [Ikhsanov] began to complain that Vasya had nothing to do with it and fell ill [Kuksov was diagnosed with tuberculosis in the first stage of decay], because he does not eat meat, ”says the defendant’s mother.

After this conversation, Kulkov was placed back in the cell, and he ended his hunger strike.

• Mikhail Kulkov is one of 11 defendants in the Network case. According to the FSB, 11 young people in Penza and St. Petersburg organized the terrorist group "Network" and were going to overthrow the government. The defendants in the case reported psychological pressure, electric shocks, beatings, and planted weapons. Some of them retracted the confessions they gave in the first days after the arrests. OVD-Info has already spoken in detail about each defendant in the case.