Case Tolokonnikova

Tolokonnikov was sent by stage. Is she hidden? Is she alive? She is taken to the city of X, no - to the region of Y. Tolokonnikov was found. And do you believe the FSIN? She is in a tuberculosis hospital. But she’s just on the examination there. There is no tuberculosis. Rumors, questions, mass hysteria.

I would like to pay attention to several things. The transfer to another colony was one of Tolokonnikova’s requirements, rather it would have to be screamed if she was returned back to the Mordovian colony. According to the correctional labor code, the head of the colony is obliged to report the location of the colony within 10 days upon the arrival of the enclosed in the camp. Usually, relatives of prisoners are not informed where they are transferred. This is considered the norm. It is clear that relatives are in a painful unknown and for quite some time. Two to three weeks and even a month-the normal time of the stage. No wonder about the stage they say "go", and not "rides", in each city new prisoners are brought up to be sent by stage, someone on the contrary is taken to the camp at the destination. If a person is very sick, he should not be sent to the stage, respectively, for some time he lingers at some kind of shipment until he is healed. Friends, associates and relatives are worried, this is natural. Everyone has nerves to the limit, even for experienced people who themselves went through this.

Here is an example from the transfer of Western radio in 1975. "The wife of Anatoly Marchenko, who was sentenced to four years in March, is afraid that her husband was dead. Larisa Bogoraz informed foreign correspondents that from the time of April, that is, from the time of Marchenko’s departure to Siberia, she did not receive any information from him. All requests about the state of health of Marchenko [by the time of the stage were starving 45 days] and his location, with his location, with his location, by which Bogoraz turned to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR remained unanswered, and therefore she fears that her husband is no longer alive. " (Marchenko arrived in exile on May 20.)

It should be borne in mind that after the arrival of the prisoner is placed in quarantine up to 15 days (Article 79 of the Criminal Executive Code).

Now about the tuberculosis hospital. Firstly, that Tolokonnikov was put in the hospital does not mean that she has tuberculosis. Secondly, excuse me, tuberculosis with normal treatment is still not a fatal disease (and if in a closed form, and not in open, then not very contagious). Today, every 20th prisoner is sick with an open form of tuberculosis. Open. In closed - even more. Of course, “Tubes” and ordinary prisoners should not intersect, but in life everyone is sitting in the camp and drinking chief in a circle, even knowing that there are patients with tuberculosis. These are camp norms.

Let's hope that everything will be in order with Tolokonnikova, and thanks to her “case”, people will pay attention to what is happening in our camps every day. And for those norms of the law that need changes.