About the picket in support of Afanasyev

On March 18, at the building of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Komi Republic, a picket was held in support of the political prisoner Gennady Afanasyev. On this day, exactly two years ago, an event occurred, which in a civilized world personally was difficult for me to imagine, and for which we still pay expensive. One way or another, while on one of the squares of our city, all employees of various institutions drove there and students in a patriotic fiber waited for them to be released, finally, we decided to remind you of a person who certainly connected our RK with those events and undeservedly pays the price even higher. I submitted an application for a picket without much hope that the administration would agree on it, so I was very surprised when the administration was told about the opposite. The picket agreed, go out, no questions.

When in your city the freedom of peaceful meetings is something from the category of science fiction, then you usually do not believe in such things. And right. Arriving at the picket, we found there a snow -cleaning technique that cleaned the snow right where we had to stand. After negotiations with the representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who made sure that we can freely use the right guaranteed to us by the Constitution of the Russian Federation, we stood from the opposite side of the entrance to the building.

Our adventures did not end there, then there was a “Jurgan” with more than strange questions, in which my answers will still be cut out as they need, the representative of the Federal Penitentiary Service, who jumped out in the middle of the picket and began to say that we were preventing him from cleaning the snow (what was the attitude of him at all to clean the snow, it is not clear to me, although not, of course we had to communicate, and with which he also had also helped to realize our renewal. Constitutional law to an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Since in advance we did not send to anyone press releases I consider it important to tell why I personally went to this picket. Firstly, the reason is that Gennady is serving a sentence for participating in the terrorist community (which never existed), for the arson of the door and the kitchen in the offices (in which he pleads guilty) and the preparation of the demolition of the monument to Lenin (the recognition in which, according to him, was made under torture, and which he later abandoned). To everyone who wants to know more about this, I can send it to the article on the website of the memorial, since I do not see the point of retelling all this ( http://memohrc.org/news/pravozashchitnyy-centr-memorial-schitaet-olega-sencova-kolchenko-i-gennadiya ). In a word, no person was injured during these “terrorist attacks”. Let me remind you that the Actician Pavlensky, after the “Lubyanka door”, demanded to qualify his actions as terrorism, but he is charged with vandalism ( https://zona.media/online/arest-pavlenskogo/) . Gennady Afanasyev himself in 2015 was recognized as political prisoner ( http://memohrc.org/special-projects/afanasev-gennadiy-sergeevich ).

The conditions of detention in our colonies and so leave much to be desired. By the efforts of the PMC members, the situation is slowly changing, but these changes are scanty, since the system itself is imprisoned for another. According to the defenders of Gennady, I know that he has a serious skin disease, he does not receive proper medical care, due to the transfer to the Komi Republic, he does not have the opportunity to see his mother, he does not receive letters from him, he did not receive letters to him a SIM card and blade into the breast pocket of the robe, which served as a transfer to the AC, which means tightening the conditions of serving the sentence, Reducing dates and programs. In general, everything is possible that a person feels worse nowhere.

Regarding the conditions of detention, I can say that - the deprivation of a person of freedom in itself is a terrible punishment, and the creation of torture and humiliating human dignity is unacceptable.

That's why I personally went to the UFSIN door yesterday, to remind them that the excess of official authority in the penitentiary system, as in any other, is unacceptable. And it was also important for me to provide Gennady support, we will definitely write to him that he was holding on and what about him here, in the wild, do not forget and follow his fate.

Freedom political prisoner!

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