02:54, 19 August 2026

Arashukov has ended his hunger strike.

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Former senator from Karachay-Cherkessia Rauf Arashukov, serving a life sentence in the "Black Dolphin," has ended his hunger strike, his lawyer reported.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot", former senator from Karachay-Cherkessia Rauf Arashukov, serving a life sentence in the "Black Dolphin" colony, refused to eat from August 1, claiming unbearable working conditions. This was reported by his lawyer Dmitry Trubnikov.

On December 27, 2022, the Moscow City Court sentenced Rauf Arashukov and his father Raul Arashukov to life imprisonment. The appellate and cassation instances upheld the sentence. Raul Arashukov died in prison in 2023.

Rauf Arashukov ended his hunger strike, which lasted 10 days, his lawyer Dmitry Trubnikov reported to TASS on August 18.

According to the lawyer, the hunger strike was declared after Arashukov was placed in a punishment cell. Currently, the term of his stay in the punishment isolation has ended, and the former senator's demands for the creation of normal working conditions will be met. The prosecutor's office of the Orenburg region is conducting an investigation into the hunger strike.

In October 2024, it became known that former senator from Karachay-Cherkessia Rauf Arashukov was accused of transferring three million rubles to the staff of the "Black Dolphin" colony in the Orenburg region for creating favorable conditions for serving his sentence. On January 13, the court found Arashukov guilty of attempting to bribe a prison officer and ordered him to pay a fine of 120 million rubles. The court also sentenced the life-imprisoned former senator to an additional 10 years in prison.

Relatives of the life-imprisoned Rauf Arashukov received a refusal in the spring regarding their request to transfer him from the Orenburg region to a colony in Mordovia. The defense of the former senator promised to appeal this decision. Arashukov also demanded 100,000 rubles in compensation from the colony for the non-issuance of food products, but the court at the end of April refused to satisfy this claim. It was revealed at the hearing that the goods that were not issued were absent from the store. On August 10, Arashukov sent a letter to the State Duma and the government of Russia proposing to increase the number of visits with children for those sentenced to life imprisonment.

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Translated automatically via OpenAI from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/425890