Based on Dvorkin’s letter, the prosecutor’s office is checking the legality of yoga classes in Moscow pre-trial detention centers

April 5, 2019 it became known about the suspension of classes yoga in Moscow pre-trial detention centers in connection with the prosecutor's check. Asking to check the legality of these activities, Senator Elena Mizulina turned to the Prosecutor General's Office. foundation for the appeal was a letter from the "sectarian" Alexander Dvorkin, who saw in the classes Yoga has many dangers.

The letter talks about the controversial reputation of yoga taking place, according to Dworkin, from "an infamous pseudo-Hindu sect", and its incompatibility with "traditional" religions.

In addition, the author of the letter fears that yoga may lead to uncontrolled sexual arousal of prisoners, as well as conflicts because of the refusal to accept food from homosexuals from the housekeeping staff.

“In the conditions of a pre-trial detention center, practices of this kind can lead to uncontrolled sexual arousal of practitioners and, as a result, to the emergence of homosexual relations between the prisoners of the housekeeping unit. And so as such connections are very harshly condemned among the special contingent, workers household services may come under such condemnation from those for whom they cook and distribute food. This, in turn. may cause food refusal prisoners in the cells, and later develop into a protest riot character " , - Moskovsky Komsomolets quotes from Dvorkin's letter, in which he demands to stop "destructive" practices in the pre-trial detention center.

On April 7, Deputy Head of the Federal Penitentiary Service Valery Maksimenko admitted that that yoga classes in the pre-trial detention center have been suspended, but the Federal Penitentiary Service is not going to abandon them completely, and in the near future they will be resumed. According to him, in addition to yogis, the prisoners will be taught qigong breathing exercises.

On April 8, Elena Mizulina called fake information that she asked to ban yoga classes in the pre-trial detention center. However, she confirmed that forwarded Dvorkin's letter to the Prosecutor General's Office, as it forwards it to the specialized ministries and departments, all incoming citizens' appeals to it.

Sources

• Orthodox examination of yoga in a pre-trial detention center struck by absurdity // Moscow's comsomolets. April 5, 2019
• The Federal Penitentiary Service urged not to condemn same-sex relationships and promised to keep yoga in jail // Moscow says. 2019. April 7th.
• Mizulina called messages about a request to ban yoga in a pre-trial detention center a fake // RIA News. April 8, 2019