A detained businessman's wife in Krasnodar started a hunger strike in front of the office of regional Administration

In Krasnodar Irina Kolesnikova, the wife of Sergey Kolesnikov, one of the defendants on the case of limited company "Promavtomatika-Invest", declared a hunger strike in front of the office of Krasnodar regional Administration demanding to release her husband from custody.

"Caucasian Knot" has already reported that at the last trial session on the case of limited company "Promavtomatika-Invest" in Lenin district of Krasnodar on October, 19, judge Roman Shakit'ko rejected the defendants Eugeny Konovalov and Sergey Kolesnikov's petition to change the measure of restriction for another one, not connected with custody. On the same day Konovalov and Kolesnikov's attorneys submitted a cassations on the enactment of Lenin court. 

The cassations were expected to be regarded in the district court on October, 27, however on October, 26 Eugeny Konovalov was released from the investigative isolation ward under his own recognizance.

Sergey Kolesnikov, the second figurant of the case, has been staying in the investigative isolation ward for already over ten months.

"I came to the circuit to find out the appointed date of hearing the cassation but I discovered that the judge had not even passed on my documents to the secretariat", Irina Kolesnikova said to a reporter of "Caucasian Knot".

She does not rule out that this is an attempt to quarrel the Kolesnikovs and the Konovalovs.

On October, 27, at about 18:00 she started a solitary picketing near the office of Krasnodar district Administration located in Krasnaya street. Just on-site Kolesnikova drew several posters with a demand to release her husband and set up a tent declaring she was going to live in it until her husband's release from the investigative isolation ward.

Several minutes after the beginning of the action the personnel of militia, Road Patrol Service, Federal Security Service and district Administration arrived at the scene. The officials from the Administration copied the texts of the posters and the members of the top brass declared that the action was illegal, however they failed to explain which legislative regulations made them come to this conclusion. Later on the representatives of the administration explained that the law did not permit to carry out such pickets day and night round, the term for this kind of actions was limited to 7:00 - 23:00 local time.

In the evening of October, 27, the scene of Irina Kolesnikova's action, beside residents and guests of Krasnodar passing by, was visited by representatives of mass media, local human rights activists, civil activists, the Konavalovs including, and also experts of Anti-corruption Mobile Chamber working in Krasnodar this week to receive local residents' complaints concerning corruption, raider-related crimes and falsification of criminal cases.