“This is an inhuman and criminal decision.

These people need to erect monuments, help in everything.

Such decisions simply deprive our athletes of the right to life, forbidding them to do what they love, ”TASS quoted Svishchev as saying.

On November 16, the IPC suspended the membership of the Russian Paralympic Committee.

The decision was made in Berlin at an extraordinary general assembly of the IPC.

RPC President Pavel Rozhkov participated in the meeting via video-conferencing.

It is specified that 64 delegates spoke in favor of this decision, 39 were against, 16 abstained.

Earlier, Svishchev responded to the demand of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to disqualify Kamila Valieva and cancel her results at the Beijing Olympics.