“At the sight of us, I immediately got up, said hello. He did not smile, nothing like that, but he looked quite tolerable. At least I didn't think that he was somehow depressed. All clothes, according to the rules of the SIZO, are taken away from the new arrivals. So Arashukov was wearing a blue prison uniform, ”Melnikov said.

According to human rights activists, Arashukov did not ask any questions, everything was clear to him.

They also noted that in the coming days, the senator will hold one in the cell, undergoing a quarantine procedure, then he will be transferred to a double room.

Earlier, the head of Karachay-Cherkessia, Rashid Temrezov, commented on the situation around the arrest in Moscow of a senator from the region, Rauf Arashukov.