Yabloko’s Andrei Babushkin, member of the Presidential Human Rights Council, demands that the Federal Penitentiary Service allow the Ombudsman and independent human rights activists to enter the Irkutsk penal colony
Press Release, 11.04.2020
Andrei Babushkin, member of the Presidential Human Rights Council and the Federal Bureau of the Yabloko party, demands that the director of the Federal Penitentiary Service urgently provide access to the Ombudsman, independent human rights activists, and journalists to the Irkutsk colony, where there was a riot, and then a fire. Babishkin demands non-violent methods to suppress disorders of prisoners, as well as involve mediators in resolving the situation.
The appeal addresses Valery Fadeyev, Chairman of the Human Rights Council, Ombudsperson Tatyana Moskalkova and Lilia Mikheyeva, Secretary of the Public Chamber, and lists the violations in the penal colony that could cause the riot. Among them are the overcrowding of the correctional institution, lack of public and state human rights control, high prices in the grocery store of the penal colony, and numerous facts of violation of the rights of prisoners revealed by the Presidential Human Rights Council five years ago.
The full text of the appeal in Russian is here.
It should be noted that on 3 April, Yabloko demanded an urgent broadest amnesty in order to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe in places of deprivation and restriction of freedom in the situation of COVID-19.
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