“In the hospital №20 three operations were performed: on the arm, on the back and on the bilateral inguinal hernia.
I spent four hours in the operating room, "a member of the commission who visited him in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center quoted Zakharchenko as saying.
The human rights activist recalled that Zakharchenko repeatedly appealed to members of the POC, as well as to the human rights ombudsman in Russia, Tatyana Moskalkova, with a request for assistance in carrying out a laparoscopic operation for an inguinal hernia and thanked him for the treatment.
“But at the same time, Zakharchenko told the POC members that he had not received any parcels in the hospital for a week, and there were no toilets in the cells of the IVS in this medical facility.
In addition, the former policeman asks to be sent from the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center for postoperative rehabilitation at the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center, the source said.
The representative of the administration of the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center explained to the members of the commission that Zakharchenko was discharged from hospital No. 20 under the outpatient supervision of a surgeon and therapist “at the place of stay, that is, in Lefortovo.
Earlier, Zakharchenko complained to the PMC about being transferred from SIZO No. 1 to a transit prison in Mordovia and back, and in December 2020, expressed dissatisfaction with the upcoming transfer from SIZO No. 1 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation to the Lefortovo SIZO.
In the fall of 2019, the Moscow City Court reduced the 13-year term assigned to Dmitry Zakharchenko to 12.5 years.
Later, the Investigative Committee filed a new charge against Zakharchenko for two episodes of bribe taking totaling more than 1.5 billion rubles.