“In order not to go there, people opened their stomachs and veins.” Ex-prisoner said he waits for Navalny in the colony



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Russian politician Dmitry Demushkin, who previously served his sentence in Pokrov City Colony No. 2, said that in the correctional institution “there is no medical assistance as such.” The opponent Alexei Navalny was transferred to this colony.

The Russian convicts do their best not to go to colony number 2 in the city of Pokrov, Vladimir region of Russia, where the Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was taken. On February 28, a Russian politician told Dozhd about this. Dmitry Demushkin, who previously also served his sentence in the specified colony.

“When I was in the Matrosskaya Tishina special block, there were four places where, it was believed, it was impossible for convicts to go. In addition to Karelia, Omsk and Krasnoyarsk, there was also Vladimir, and people did their best not to go there, even to the extent that they opened the stomach, opened the veins. Therefore, the administration never notified the convicts that they were going to Vladimir’s council to serve their sentences, “Demushkin said.

He pointed out that physical violence is not used in the colony, even though “harsh conditions” exist. According to Demushkin, the task of the colony number 2 in the city of Pokrov is to “psychologically break people” and completely isolate them from the outside world.

Demushkin stressedthat relatives learned of his whereabouts three weeks later.

“My first letter that the colony sent was two and a half months later, and before that all my letters were destroyed, and they did not reach me from family and friends,” he said.

Demushkin added that in the colony “there is no medical assistance as such.”

On January 17, Navalny returned to Russia from Germany, where he was treated after being poisoned with a Novichok-class military substance. The politician was in a coma for 18 days. The opponent considers the assassination attempt as a terrorist act organized by the FSB on the order of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Immediately after his return, he was detained at Sheremetyevo airport in the Yves Rocher case and arrested for 30 days (as part of the case, he received a suspended sentence and was supposed to appear before investigators, but did not do so due to your deal. in Germany).

On February 2, the Moscow Simonovsky Court, in a retreat at the Moscow City Court, replaced Navalny’s suspended sentence with a real one in the Yves Rocher case. Taking into account the time he spent under house arrest, the politician will remain in a general regime colony for two years and 6.5 months.

After Navalny’s arrest, mass protests began in Russia. According to the opposition team, 250-300 thousand people participated in the actions on January 23 across the country, on January 31 – 200-300 thousand. On February 2, the day of Navalny’s trial, new rallies were held in Russia. Federation, but they weren’t that full. On February 4, Navalny headquarters reported that they did not intend to organize protests until the spring. However, a few days later, they changed their minds and announced a new action, which took place on February 14.

On February 20, the Russian court refused execute a decision ECHR and Navalny release and upheld the decision to replace the suspended policy with a real one.

On February 25 it emerged that Navalny was being transferred from the Matrosskaya Tishina detention center in Moscow. His lawyer, Vadim Kobzev, was not informed where exactly the politician was taken.

“Open Media”, referring to the words of human rights activist Ruslan Vakhapov, reported that on February 27, the prisoner who took Navalny to colony No. 2 in the city of Pokrov, Vladimir region of the Russian Federation, It was adopted according to the internal regulations.



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