As one of the members of the commission said, Valery Maksimenko, during a conversation with human rights defenders, said that for the first time during his stay in a pre-trial detention center he received a price list of a stall where you can buy essential items.

“He ordered toilet paper for 8 thousand rubles, which is just such an item,” said the interlocutor of RT.

The human rights activist explained that prisoners in Russian pre-trial detention centers are entitled to 24 meters of toilet paper per month, that is, only one roll. 

“Of course, one roll a month is not enough for the arrested, and in the programs this hygiene item is not accepted in the pre-trial detention center, since it is believed that the paper can be saturated with drugs or even poison.

Therefore, all inmates who have money in their personal accounts buy it in prison shops, ”added the POC representative.

Earlier Maksimenko told human rights activists that the food in this pre-trial detention center is better than in prisons in Europe and Asia.

On November 26 it became known that Maksimenko was detained on charges of abuse of power.

Later, the Basmanny Court of Moscow sent him under arrest for two months.