The project "For Human Rights"* reported that activist Mikhail Kriger has been on a hunger strike in the colony since September 25 in protest against his isolation from people.
After another 15 days in solitary confinement, the administration of the penal colony in the Oryol region informed Kriger that there was information about a threat to his life and health, so he would be kept in a "safe place." "I thought these were two different rooms," said Mikhail Kriger's brother Pavel, "it turned out to be the same room, they just lowered the bed from the wall—and he ended up in a safe place." But since the bed occupied the main space of the cell, he leaned on it, and they immediately sent him back to solitary confinement. "Right in the same cell, they raised the bed, and he ended up in solitary confinement until October 9," said Pavel Kriger.
Mikhail Kriger believes that nothing threatens him in the barrack and that he is being deliberately isolated from people. Kriger wrote a statement and made a demand: if he is not transferred to the unit by October 9, he will not stop the hunger strike.
In 2023, Kriger was sentenced to seven years in a colony under articles on "justifying terrorism" and "inciting hatred with the threat of violence." According to the investigation, he encroached on the lives of FSB officers and called for the execution of Vladimir Putin by hanging. Kriger himself associates the persecution with his anti-war and pro-Ukrainian stance.
* Recognized as a "foreign agent" in Russia.
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