Human rights activist Andrei Babushkin died

The human rights activist Andrei Babushkin died, he was 58 years old. This was reported by the press service of the Yabloko party, whose federal bureau included Babushkin.

The cause of his death is not called. On the eve of the human rights activist was hospitalized in the intensive care unit of the 20th Moscow hospital in the Grandmother's district in the north of the city. He got there with an exacerbation of a long -standing disease, told Merkachev to Kommersant. “He was pumped out, but the doctors said that it was vital to lead a healthy lifestyle, but he simply has long out of himself,” she said.

Andrei Babushkin was born in 1964 in the Moscow region. He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University. Lomonosov. In the 1990s, he was a deputy of the Moscow City Council, dealt with the problems of penitentiary institutions - prisons, colonies, pre -trial detention centers. Babushkin organized a system of regular assistance to needy children serving a sentence in educational and labor colonies.

In 1996, he became the head of the human rights organization for civil rights, was a member of the Human Rights of the Council under the President of Russia. Since 1999, he was a member of the Expert-Council Council under the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation. In the 2000s, he again became a deputy - in the Otradnoye area in Moscow. Since 2012, he was a member of the Council under the President of Russia on Human Rights.

"Andrei Babushkin won more than two hundred criminal and civil processes in the courts in the interests of children, youth, pensioners, achieved the release of many innocent ones from the places of imprisonment. He was the organizer of several campaigns to protect the squares and flows of rivers in the North-East Administrative District, thanks to which the author of more than 30 amendments included in the current legislation. Creator and head of the Assistance Service. Creator and head Children - orphans whose efforts were returned home and more than 500 street children to the shelters, ”the Yabloko statement said.