“I suffered a severe covid, I’m an elderly person, when I go up to the exercise yard, I get short of breath and my throat dries up, so I took a small bottle of water, and since this Saturday, water has been banned, I’m suffocating without water,” Melnikov cited the words of the former deputy director of the FSIN, who, in an interview with members of the POC, emphasized that there is no such ban in the internal regulations (TAP) of remand prisons.
“I specially re-read the TAP, checked - there is no such restriction,” Maksimenko emphasized, not hiding his indignation.
Discontent with the new ban was expressed by other prisoners of Lefortovo, in particular, 68-year-old Valery Golubkin, who was arrested on charges of high treason.
“He also expressed bewilderment at the introduction of this ban.
Professor Golubkin says that in the concrete box of the exercise yard, water in hot weather was the only salvation, "the interlocutor of RT explained.
According to the executive secretary of the PMC, the members of the commission recommended the administration of the detention center to cancel the ban introduced a week ago.
Prisoners at Lefortovo previously also complained about the meager assortment of the prison stall and the lack of halal food, as required by the norms of the Islamic religion.