Red Selo. How is the Center for the Temporary Contents of Foreign Citizens

Workers are mounted a fence at the Center for Temporary Contents of Foreign Citizens in St. Petersburg. Photo: Alexey Danichev / RIA "Novosti"

The St. Petersburg Center for Temporary Contents of Foreign Citizens, which opened in 2010, became one of the first specialized institutions where illegal migrants from Russia expects. From the beginning of his work, foreigners are regularly run away from there. The center obeys the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but is not inferior to the FSIN institutions with its closedness. Mediazone talks about the everyday life of this and similar institutions - many months of deprivation of liberty, lack of medical care and removal of children from parents.

The Temporary detention center of foreign citizens in St. Petersburg was opened at the end of 2009. Since January 2010, he began to accept illegal migrants. At the opening, the Governor of the city Valentina Matvienko emphasized that this is “not a five -star hotel”, but a place where foreigners will expect deportation or expulsion.

In the eight -story building, on the outskirts of the Red Selo, before that there was a hostel. On the fourth floor there are now cameras for violators, convicted, and sometimes seriously ill; On the fifth or seventh floors, men live, and on the eighth-women. According to observers, the conditions on the floors are like in a hostel, but with one reservation: the doors are locked to the floor.

When opening the center, it was claimed that families would be provided with separate rooms. However, observers who have visited foreigners say that employees of the Center often refuse to settle children and parents together.

Initially, the institution led the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but after the transfer of the centers to the FMS in 2014, the management was replaced here. Only two and a half years later, in April 2016, in connection with the liquidation of the migration service, the centers returned to the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Until January 1, 2014, special institutions of the temporary maintenance of foreign citizens (SUVSIG) were under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. At the same time, in practice, there were almost no individual deportation centers in the country: usually foreigners expected expulsion in temporary detention centers, special receivers and pre -trial detention centers. The transfer of institutions for foreigners from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the migration service was spoke after the Moscow authorities defeated the tent camp for illegal migrants in Golyanovo in August 2013; Foreigners were then detained during the “stripping”, which followed the fight of merchants with police in the Matveyevsky market. More than 500 people were placed in the tent camp. According to Augustus of the same year, 21 special-receiving distributor worked throughout Russia, which also contained expelled foreigners. When transferring institutions of the FMS, it was planned to create more than 80 centers for foreigners in 81 in the region of the country. In May 2014, the deputy head of the department Anatoly Kuznetsov said that in 78 regions of the country there is such a 81 center.

Grates, sheets, shoots

Since the beginning of the work of the St. Petersburg Center, shoots about shoots have been regularly received. In 2011, for two months, foreigners fled from the institution three times . On August 31, two citizens of Uzbekistan and Estonian, squeezing the window of the window on the seventh floor, went down along the sheets and disappeared. On September 4, three more foreigners fled; On September 20, again, three migrants went down from the window of the fourth floor along the bound sheets. In April 2012, 11 foreigners fled from the Red village - citizens of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. After that, the head of the center Vitaly Ulev was fired.

The shoots continued in the next years. In 2014, the institution arbitrarily left eight migrants-citizens of Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Moldova. On May 9, 2016, three more foreigners disappeared .

Foreign citizens at the time of temporary maintenance in St. Petersburg. Photo: Alexey Danichev / RIA "Novosti"

In August 2013, the security forces of St. Petersburg, following colleagues from Moscow, conducted mass detention of migrants. In the designed for 176 people, there were 308 foreigners; RIA Novosti wrote that due to lack of places of 20 migrants spent the night on buses.

In 2015, the amendments made to the Law on the PMC allowed public observers to visit centers for foreigners. From this moment on, the press began to appear more information about the conditions of the content of migrants. However, the first few months, members of the St. Petersburg commission were denied access to the FMS institutions. At the end of 2016, the new composition of the PMC also had problems with the admission; Once again, a visit was allowed only after discussion with the administration of the center.

Without documents, drugs and amenities

Human rights activists identify several key problems of the St. Petersburg Center for Foreigners. One of them is an unreasonably long expectation of deportation or expulsion. For the longest expulsion, people are usually waited for by stateless persons.

This status is often acquired by people with Soviet passports, who came to Russia from the former Union republics and did not change documents after the collapse of the USSR. Another category is residents of the East of Ukraine who have lost their passports.

“If a person without a passport and a residence permit in Lugansk, then this is a path situation, because his passport cannot be restored. The center sends an official request to Kyiv, and Kyiv replies that we do not have control over this territory, ”says Yana Teplitskaya, a member of the St. Petersburg PMC. When Ukraine nevertheless agrees to accept its citizens from the regions controlled by the separatists, the deported is waiting for an audit in the SBU.

Artem Dokhlov, spent five months in the St. Petersburg center, Dokhlov and his wife and a five-year-old daughter left the Luhansk region due to an armed conflict. He did not have a passport. “At my house, all the documents burned down for a long time, even when it all started,” he recalls. In the fall of 2014, Dokhlov came to Petersburg to friends. He tried to get refugee status in the FMS, but he was refused, citing the fact that "Peter went through the refugees." Due to the lack of documents, Dokhlov could not get a job. “I needed money, I sat down for robbery. 20 thousand, but still left for a year. I regret it, but at that time there was a very difficult situation. I have a child, ”says the Ukrainian. Immediately after the release, he was taken to the center of temporary detention of foreigners, as the Ministry of Justice recognized him by Persona Non Grata, and again placed in the cell. The institution sent a request to Kyiv. “But Ukraine looks that I am a resident of the Luhansk region, and answers with direct text: we are ordered not to issue, we don’t know that, we don’t know. They don’t want to bother, ”Dokhlov believes. He was afraid of deportation to Kyiv, since the SBU checks the residents of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions that returned to the country in touch with the separatists. The first two months of conflict in eastern Ukraine, he supported the self -proclaimed republics, but "he did not kill anyone, stood, defended, delivered a humanitarian." On March 16, Dokhlova was released from the center - they expired 120 days allotted for deportation. After that, the court ordered him to leave Russia on his own. Dokhlov is going to return to the Lugansk region, where his wife and daughter have already left.

The maximum term of maintenance in centers for stateless persons is two years. In practice, they are released earlier - after the expiration of the period that the court allows the bailiffs to decorate all the papers for deportation, and when another country refuses to accept the apatrid. However, a foreigner who entered the city can again be detained and delivered to the center. Lawyer Olga Zeitlina explains that in Russian laws, the legalization mechanism is not prescribed for such people.

In October 2016, Vephvia Sortia died in the St. Petersburg Center. They tried to expel him to Georgia, but the country did not recognize him as its citizen. For the first time, the man was detained in October 2014; In February 2015, the court released him, but ordered him to leave Russia on his own. At the end of 2015, Sordia was again sent to the center. By August 2016, chronic diseases worsened. He was hospitalized, but not left in the hospital and recommended "observation and treatment at the place of residence." Sordia was returned to the center, from where he was released only on October 8; On the same day, he died in the hospital.

Irzahan Bayramov, spent a total of a year and six months of Bayramov from Georgia for a year and six months, but since 1994, when he was 10 years old, he lives in St. Petersburg. Of the identification documents, he has only a Soviet birth certificate. In September 2014, the man came to the FMS to ask for citizenship, but in the end ended up in the center for foreigners. Three months later, the court decided to clarify Bayramov’s identity and give him documents. In September 2015, he again went to the FMS to execute the court decision, and he was again sent to the center. A month later, Georgia replied that she did not consider Bayramova his citizen. He admits that this is due to the error in his patronymic Nariman Ogly, which the Russian authorities in the request sent to Georgia were indicated as “Narimanovich”. “The judge took, also closed. Just a year and three months I was sitting there in vain. For what - I don't know. Where to go, what to do next? - Bayramov is perplexed. - I would like to stay. What should I do there? All of mine here. " Now the lawyer of the Red Cross is seeking to cancel the decision of a judge who obliged Bayramov to leave Russia on his own. “I'm already afraid to contact somewhere. Just as in 2015 he turned, they took me and closed me. Now I'm also afraid to go somewhere-they will be stuffed there for the third time, ”says Bayramov.

Another serious problem of institutions for foreigners is the inaccessibility of medical care. “Sortia died due to unconditioning medical care. There is only a paramedic, there are no qualified specialists and there are no funds for sending to medical facilities besides emergency assistance. It is very, rare to the hospital when you die, ”says lawyer Olga Zeitlina, who provides legal assistance to migrants.

Member of the PMC Yana Teplitskaya calls the situation with medicine in the center for expelled and deported catastrophic. Migrants can count on the help of a doctor only in the most emergency cases, she says. So, according to Teplitskaya, the ambulance in St. Petersburg refused to hospitalize a girl with a tumor, since at that time the neoplasm did not yet threaten her life. The foreigner could not undergo the necessary examination.

Only a paramedic works in the institution. The official response of the Center’s Administration said that the state of a doctor is declared, but it is impossible to find a specialist who will agree to the installed salary. The institution recognize problems with the content of patients with tuberculosis and HIV-infected people, which in the center simply cannot provide full treatment.

Kristina Cheban (the name changed), spent almost two months in the St. Petersburg Center Citizen of Moldova Christina Cheban in the center in October 2016. She lived in St. Petersburg for a year and two months, exceeding the permissible term of temporary stay in Russia. “I have to leave every three months. But I did not do this, because I did not have the opportunity: on the apartment, on food [spent] everything, ”explains Cheban. In her documents, one digit was confused in the date of birth, because of this, the deportation dragged on. “As a result, I was deported. I left, at home, no documents, I did not redo anything, I did not think to think at all. I just made myself a new passport, ”says Cheban. - Our president met with Putin on January 17 in Moscow. 200 thousand has Moldovan, they have deporters, and 50 thousand of them are canceled. And, apparently, I got on a fresh list. I was just cool lucky. " Cheban returned to Petersburg to work. Soon she plans to leave Russia so as not to get to the center in Krasnoye Selo, and then return again. A Moldova citizen says that of the drugs in the center there were only Analgin and Paracetamol - they were offered, in particular, a girl from Africa, who had problems with the pancreas. African was tormented by severe pain. For a woman who could not serve herself after a stroke, she looked after Cheban with another deported.

Another problem of expelled migrants is the removal of children, despite the law guaranteed by law, the right of parents to live with them together. Minors in St. Petersburg are sent either to the Cymbalin hospital (usually children under three years old), or to the transit shelter.

In the center of temporary content in St. Petersburg. Photo: Alexey Danichev / RIA "Novosti"

“Children are also seized on the way, they do not fit in Suvsig. Children begin to be taken away in the police department. For various occasions, ”says the former member of the ONC Leonid Agafonov. In the center for foreigners, this is explained by the lack of conditions for the maintenance of children. The human rights activist recalls the story of a five -month Umarali Nazarov, who was selected from his mother by police. The child was sent to the Tsimbalin hospital, where he died the next day. His mother was soon expelled from the country.

“This is a whole problem that children are separately sent from mothers mainly. Children are seized before the court, and they do not fall into a court decision. That is, money in the budget is not laid down on them, and they are expelled separately, ”explains Agafonov. For example, two children of the citizens of Uzbekistan were sent to their homeland on an airplane with the accompanying person only two months after the deportation of their mother, says a social activist. At the arrival of children, the children were first sent to the orphanage to Tashkent, he adds. Foreigners are not ready to complain to the ECHR of such actions.

Observers from the new composition of the PMC of the Center said that they were trying to coordinate the time of deportation with a shelter or hospital and send a mother and child with one flight.

Human rights activists heard many complaints about the living conditions in the center. Now lawyer Olga Zeitlina is a complaint to the ECHR against the maintenance of her client in the cell. There he has been there for more than a year. According to the lawyer, there are no legal grounds for the isolation of foreigners, but this is a common practice: “They are placed there not on any grounds. Just so the administration decided. As a rule, they are placed either by those who were judged, either if undesirable, or those who behave poorly, or cannot expel, or deportation for a long time. ”

The illegal immigrants told the PMC members about short walks for 15 minutes, poor food and a lack of hygiene products. They have to buy many household items themselves. Christina Cheban recalls that she herself paid plumbing for the repair of the washing machine in the center, and the administration broke in the women's floor could not put in order three weeks.

In addition, the former member of the PMC Agafonov draws attention to the fact that, unlike the FSIN institutions in the center for the maintenance of foreigners, food norms for pregnant women are not established.

On each floor of the center there is a "senior". “He himself puts things in order, the elder has a telephone, a separate room in which he lives. All transfers go through him, they throw money on his phone. He is a respected person, because he has a phone at any time of the day, and he can give a call, ”Agafonov explains. The observer notes that in the center there were cases of the beating of foreigners by the administration, but the complaints did not give any results. Yana Teplitskaya did not hear about cases of violence in the institution.

Speaking about the transfer of the Center to the Ministry of Internal Affairs from the FMS, Agafonov notes that the middle -level employees and deputy heads retained their places. According to the social activist, the problems of centers after the next reform remained the same.

“They worked as they work. The worldview of people will not change due to the fact that they changed the sign, ”the former member of the PMC summarizes.