| MOSCOW. July 6 (Interfax) - The Presidential Human Rights
Council has proposed that medical services provided to inmates
of detention centers should not remain under the exclusive
control of the Federal Penitentiary Service, says the Council's
interim report on an inquiry into Hermitage Capital lawyer
Sergei Magnitsky's death at a detention facility.
"The facts listed confirm the need to organize independent
and competent medical services for inmates of penitentiary
facilities. Such services cannot be exclusively controlled
by the Federal Penitentiary Service and must also be subordinated
to the Health Ministry," it says.
"It is necessary to create a mechanism of independent
medical examinations of the inmates' condition on the basis
of proposals provided by the Office of the Moscow Human Rights
Commissioner, jointly with the City Public Supervisory Commission,"
the report says.
Since the investigation into the Magnitsky case began, the
Moscow Public Supervisory Commission and government agencies
have taken certain measures, including in relation to citizens,
held in custody on economic charges, drawing up a list of
diseases which rule out the suspects' arrest. But the problem
of investigators' unlawful and unfounded interference in deciding
in what conditions inmates should be held and what medical
aid should be provided to them, remains unsettled. After Magnitsky's
death, investigators put similar pressure on doctors and personnel
of the Matrosskaya Tishina detention center in the case of
Vera Trifonova, who died on April 30, 2010, while being held
in custody. The practice of holding seriously ill and even
dying people in custody continues to this day," the report
says.
See also:
Inquiry: Magnitsky Beaten
by Guards. The Moscow Times, July 6, 2011
Valery Borschyov: Sergei
Magnitsky died because he was severely beaten. Press Release,
July 5, 2011
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