On 23 November 2015 Evgeny Vitishko declared a hunger strike in protest at moves by prosecutors who had challenged steps towards his release on parole. On November 10, the Kirsanov Court in Russia’s Tambov Region had granted Vitishko’s appeal for conditional release from his custodial sentence at the local Sadovaya Prison Colony, where he’s served a year and nine months on a three-year sentence for spray painting an environmental message on a fence. However, late on 19 November prosecutors filed an 11th hour appeal which, as Bellona notes, would 'keep Vitishko in jail until it can be decided precisely where he will live out his conditional sentence upon his release.' This effectively postpones Vitishko's release until at least 3 December 2015.