Human rights activist Ponomarev, who is serving administrative arrest, was transferred to a non-smoking cell

The management of Moscow special detention center No. 1 transferred 77-year-old human rights activist Lev Ponomarev, who is serving administrative arrest, to a non-smoking cell, Ivan Melnikov, executive secretary of the Moscow Public Monitoring Committee, told Interfax.

According to him, the non-smokers agreed to change places with the smokers, and thus Ponomarev ended up in a cell where there was no smoking. Besides him, there are seven more people in the cell.

that the human rights activist be transferred to a non-smoking room recommended Members of the Public Monitoring Committee, who visited Ponomarev on the morning of December 12, . He told them that he had difficulty breathing in a cell where eight people were smoking. The administration of the special detention center said that this was impossible to do, since “everyone in the special detention center smokes.”

that Ponomarev be transferred to a non-smoking cell requested At the same time , Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova also . She promised to make a corresponding request today to the Minister of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev.

Ponomarev was arrested for a post about the action “For your and our children” in support of those involved in the “Penza case” and the “New Greatness” case. The human rights activist was found guilty of repeated violation of the rules of public events (Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code). At first, the Tverskoy Court of Moscow sentenced him to 25 days of arrest, but the Moscow City Court reduced the term to 16 days.

The human rights activist asked to cancel the arrest decision and release him to attend the funeral of human rights activist Lyudmila Alekseeva, who died on December 8. However, the court did not release the human rights activist.