The administration of Voronezh penal colony No. 2 asks the court to release a seriously ill convict

The Central District Court of Voronezh will reconsider the petition of the head of IK-2, who asks for the release of a seriously ill prisoner. Previously, the court granted the request, but after a complaint from the prosecutor's office, a higher court overturned this decision, reports the human rights organization Zona Prava.

According to the conclusion of the medical commission, the man has diabetes mellitus of the first type and requires daily insulin injections; in addition, he has hypertension at the third stage, coronary heart disease and hepatitis C. The convicted person is a disabled person of the second group, and his diagnosis is included in the list of diseases that prevent serving a sentence.

The head of IK-2 previously sent a petition to the Central District Court of Voronezh for the release of the man due to a serious illness. In July 2015, the petition was granted. However, the prosecutor's office appealed this decision to the regional court, which in September overturned the decision to release him.

The case materials were sent to the court for re-examination. According to human rights activists, the meeting is scheduled for October 29, 2015.

“In our practice, there has not been a case where the prosecutor’s office supported a petition for the release of a convicted person due to a serious illness. Instead of receiving quality treatment in a civilian hospital, the prosecutor's office insists on leaving the convicted person in a correctional facility, where there are often no conditions for adequate medical care. This year alone, 10 of our applicants have died, that is, approximately one per month. Two of them (in the Trans-Baikal Territory and Tatarstan) simply did not live to see the decisions on their release enter into legal force. Hence the growing number of complaints to the Strasbourg court that we file in connection with the violation by the Russian authorities of Art. 3 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms - “Prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment,” Sergei Petryakov, a representative of the “Zona Prava”, commented to Mediazona.