Harm from inaction

Lawyers for former FSB colonel Mikhail Trepashkin, who is serving a sentence in a penal colony in Nizhny Tagil on charges of disclosing state secrets, claim a threat to his life. “Trepashkin had a severe asthma attack, and the administration had to call an ambulance, but the doctors were not given the opportunity to hospitalize him,” Trepashkin’s lawyer Elena Liptser said on Friday. She emphasized that now “there really is a threat to Trepashkin’s life, and in the conditions of the colony he cannot be provided with proper medical care.”