"Weapons baron" Bout requires to improve the conditions of detention in a Thai prison

The Russian businessman Viktor Boot, whom the Thai appeal court decided to extradite to the United States, wrote a letter to the Bang Kuang, central Bangkok regime, demanding to improve the detention regime, RIA Novosti reports with the Russian wife Alla But.

“Today I was at Victor, and he wrote a letter to me to the prison administration demanding that the regime be improved. The letter is a whole list of requirements. The main thing is at the moment in order to be given the opportunity to use an electric kettle in the cell for heating and boiling water and cooking and cooking. In addition, they still refuse to connect the TV to the cable television network, which is in the prison in every chamber, as well as In many other things that all other prisoners use freely, ”said Alla But.

According to the wife of the Russian businessman, in a letter, Bout thanked the leadership of the prison for taking care of his security, but added that these security measures for incomprehensible reasons are very infringed on by his rights.

Butu himself previously complained that the inability to boil water or cook hot food affects, ultimately, to his health. "In the prison where I was before the decision of the Court of Appeal, all this was possible. Here, all prisoners can also prepare food and drink hot tea. Everyone except me. I am all the time in my" single "two by two meters, which is usually used to punish prisoners who have insulting the court. It is clear that there are no other" loners "here and that all this is done, but gradually, for my safety. Such a situation turns into psychological torture, ”said But.

“For example, all this epic with a TV. They solemnly allowed the TV, reported to the embassy and superiors. My wife bought and brought the TV to jail the next day. A week was approved until, finally, he was in my cell. Without an antenna and cable. There is cable television in prison, but it is forbidden to watch even Thai programs. But the leadership of the prison. To say: we were asked for permission for the TV - here is a TV.

Butu is allowed once a day the forty -shock "walks" on the corridor of the seventh floor of the prison block number 10. All other cameras on the floor are freed from prisoners as "safety measure".

"There is no hot water in the chamber, there is a soul too. There is a bady with cold water and a plastic bucket. Now the rainy season is quite wet at night - the temperature is just above 20 degrees and high humidity. It is hot during the day. When the temperature drop is almost ten degrees at night. The floors of concrete, they do not add warmth," said the floors of it. But.

According to him, there is no table, no chair in the cell, and everything that he writes, including a letter to the prison administration, "is written, sitting on this very concrete floor."

“I’m not convicted. I was decided to extradite to the United States. But in fact, the extradition case is not criminal, although it is considered according to the criminal procedure. Moreover, the Thai legal system has justified me three times: once at the level of the Prosecutor General’s Office, which was not found to initiate a criminal case under Thai law, and twice at the level of the court of first instance. And here, in Bang Kuang, There are more rights than mine than mine, ”he said.

Alla Buto said on Monday the agency that her husband sent a copy of the letter to the prison leadership to the Russian Embassy in Bangkok. "The embassy has repeatedly turned and continues to contact the prison administration with letters for each issue related to the detention regime. Every week a letter is written for the resolution of daily visits to Victor, and only two dates per week are usually allowed in this prison. We have been visible to us, we see each day every day. But to many letters of the embassy, ​​regarding the possibility of passing Victor Video and Disks with films, an electric kettle, a hair cutter, still remain unanswered, ”said the Russian businessman's wife.

"We will continue to write letters and meet with the leadership of the prison, asking for an improvement in the content mode again and again. Gradually it turns out. We have achieved daily dates, walks, transfer it to it of first necessity. Now we strongly ask to allow visits to specialist doctors, including the dentist, we ask you to allow boiling water in the cell and much more. And what we ask him to provide is mainly such things that he has the right to both Thai and international standards.

Recall that Viktor Boot was arrested in March 2008 at the request of the United States in Thailand, where he arrived as a tourist. The arrest was carried out jointly by the Thai police and agents of the American special services and was organized according to the “provocative operation” scheme: the US agents, under the guise of buyers of weapons for Colombian left -wing partisans, met with a Russian in Bangkok and provoked him to pronounce a number of anti -American statements.

In August 2009 and in October 2010, the Thai criminal court twice decided to refuse the United States to bother the Russian extradction on two American requests: in the first case, Buta was accused of conspiracy to prepare the murder of US citizens and material support for terrorism, the second - of violation of the American law on the US Extraordinary Economic Complement, money laundering and fraud.

In August 2010, the Thai appeal court, considering the “first” decision protested by the American side, canceled it and decided to extradite Buta in the United States within three months from the date of the decree. Currently, the Russian extradition procedure has been suspended in connection with the filing of his appeal regarding the court’s decision in the “second case of Buta”.