Yabloko called on the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service to provide immediate medical assistance to imprisoned municipal deputy Alexei Gorinov
Press Release, 13.12.2023
Photo: Alexei Gorinov / Photo from open sources
Chairman of Yabloko Nikolai Rybakov asks the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service Arkady Gostev to conduct a medical examination of Alexei Gorinov and monitor the provision of medical care to him in full.
Alexei Gorinov, a municipal deputy of the Krasnoselsky district of Moscow, was convicted of “fakes” about the army, and, according to his lawyer, is in very bad condition, very weak and can hardly stand on his feet. He has a chronic lung disease; in the penal colony he suffered from left-sided pleuropneumonia, underwent treatment, but, according to available information, after returning to the penal colony IK-2 in the Vladimir region, he was prevented from taking medications.
Now Gorinov, despite his condition, is not in a medical institution and does not receive full treatment.
“We urge you to intervene in the situation, give instructions to conduct a medical examination of Gorinov and monitor the provision of medical care to him to the fullest extent necessary,” runs letter from Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov to the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service.
Posted: December 13th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations.