The body of the arrested person was found in the cell of the Moscow pre-trial detention center No. 5 "Vodnik", the Moscow news agency reports , citing a source in law enforcement agencies.
According to the interlocutor, the body of the 23-year-old prisoner was found “with signs of asphyxia, that is, suffocation.”
An investigation is underway, the news agency’s source noted.
In September, journalist Eva Merkacheva, a member of the Public Monitoring Commission , said that two prisoners died in two days in the Moscow pre-trial detention center-4 “Bear”. in the capital’s pre-trial detention center No. 6 was found On October 10, the body of a woman arrested in a drug case . The woman was sent to the isolation ward three days earlier. In the same month, a TASS source reported that a prisoner died in the Vodnik pre-trial detention center.