Employees of Center “E” came with a survey to an activist who was corresponding with a Ukrainian political prisoner

Employees of the Center “E” near Moscow came to the home of activist Tatyana Kasyanova, who writes letters to political prisoners, to conduct a survey. She talked about this.

OVD-InfoHome, local officers from Center “E” (the department for combating extremism) in civilian clothes came to visit Kasyanova in the Moscow region. According to the employees, they were given the task from Moscow to conduct a survey regarding Kasyanova’s correspondence with convicted Ukrainian political prisoner Alexander Shumkov, sentenced to four years in prison on charges of involvement in the Right Sector.

“Eshniki”, in particular, asked how Kasyanova was related to Shumkov, where she found the postal address at which he could write to the colony, why she was writing to him and for how long, and whether they knew each other personally.

Kasyanova has long corresponded with various political prisoners in Russia because she sympathizes with their situation, including with Shumkov, who stopped responding to letters in November-December 2019.

• In October 2019, Shumkov went on a hunger strike in correctional colony No. 4 in the Tver region. announced - In December 2018, the court ruled that Alexander Shumkov was guilty of participating in the Right Sector, banned in Russia (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, he also worked as a security guard for the leader of the organization, Dmitry Yarosh. Shumkov's relatives claim that at the time of his arrest Shumkov was not a member of the Right Sector. recognized - "Right Sector" - an association of Ukrainian nationalist organizations that participated in the Kiev Maidan of 2013–2014. In Russia it is recognized as an extremist organization and banned.
• Shumkov was detained in August 2017 at a vehicle checkpoint in the Sevsky district. He was arrested in September. The defense claims that Shumkov, as an investigator of the military prosecutor's office of Ukraine, was going to a meeting with an informant who was supposed to tell him information about drug suppliers from the territory of the self-proclaimed DPR and LPR to Ukraine. At the meeting place near the border, Shumkov was attacked, beaten and taken to Russia. Russian-Ukrainian