Anton Chechin joined the hunger strike in support of Anastasia Zinovkina.

Anton Chechin, a prisoner convicted in a drug case in Georgia, has joined a hunger strike demanding punishment for the prison staff who inhumanely treated Anastasia Zinovkina.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," the condition of Anastasia Zinovkina, a Russian woman convicted in a drug case in Georgia, worsened. She received no assistance from prison staff for eight hours, despite being unable to move due to back pain. Anastasia Zinovkina told acquaintances in a phone call on October 30 about the refusal of staff at the women's prison in Rustavi to provide her with medical care. Artyom Gribul, convicted in Georgia of drug trafficking, has declared a hunger strike and is demanding the identities of all correctional facility employees who inhumanely treated Anastasia Zinovkina.

Anton Chechin has begun a hunger strike in support of Anastasia Zinovkina, his wife, Manana Samkharadze, announced on her Facebook page*.

Chechin and Gribul were transferred to a separate cell where prisoners on hunger strike are held, Tbilisi Life writes.

Gribul demands that all the penitentiary employees who inhumanely treated Zinovkina be identified and fired.

As a reminder, on September 2, a Tbilisi court sentenced Russian citizen Anton Chechin to eight years and six months in prison on drug possession charges. Chechin claims that drugs were planted on him for participating in pro-European protests.

"Caucasian Knot" published a report "The Main Thing About the Persecution of Protest Participants in Georgia". The Caucasian Knot has compiled materials about the parliamentary elections and the protests that followed on the page "Elections in Georgia-2024".

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