The crew members of the ships named "Myskhako", "Torik" and "Kaspiy", who are on hunger strike. Screenshot of the video by the "Caucasian Knot"

28 November 2017, 23:42

Hunger-striking Dagestani sailors ask Vasiliev for help

Twelve seamen from the arrested ships of the Dagestani Shipping Company, who are on hunger strike in Astrakhan, have accused customs of arbitrary behaviour and asked the acting head of Dagestan Vladimir Vasiliev to help them.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on November 26, Dagestan sailors announced an endless hunger strike in the port of Astrakhan in protest against the arrest of three vessels of the "Invest" Company. The ships have been arrested in April; and since then about 300 crew members stay without salaries.

In their video appeal, six sailors report that they cannot leave their arrested ship for more than six months.

"Because of lawlessness of the customs, the only shipping company in Dagestan on the verge of bankruptcy. If not to save it, the entire fleet and all the seamen of Dagestan will be unemployed," the hunger strikers have stated.

The hunger strike was announced by the crew members of the ships named "Myskhako", "Torik" and "Kaspiy", the "Invest" company's legal department has added.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.

Author: Timur Isaev, Patimat Makhmutova Source: CK correspondents

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