Deputy Chairperson of the Moscow Public Monitoring Commission (ONK) Eva Merkacheva has said that she and other ONK members were not allowed for security reasons to visit the Lefortovo remand center to inspect the prison conditions of Ukrainian citizens being held there.
“They said to us that all of these people whose prison conditions we want to check wrote an application to say they don’t want to talk to us, but they didn’t show us these applications. Apart from that, when we asked to see these citizens so that we would be able to inspect their cells, employees of the detention facility said that it isn’t going to happen, because these citizens can’t control themselves and may be dangerous for us,” Merkacheva told Interfax.
Volodymyr Balukh, Pavlo Hryb, Stanyslav Klykh, Oleksandr Kolchenko, Roman Suschenko, and Yevhen Panov are being held at the Lefortovo remand prison, executive secretary of the Public Monitoring Commission Ivan Melnikov told Interfax.
Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov, who was convicted on the charge of terrorism, was conveyed from a penal colony in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area, where he served his sentence, to Moscow’s Butyrka detention facility, an informed source told Interfax on Aug. 29.
