The prisoner declared a hunger strike due to the conditions of detention in the Altai pre-trial detention center

From May 15, the 62-year-old prisoner Oleg Koretsky holds a hunger strike in the pre-trial detention center-1 of Gorno-Altaysk. He protests against the conditions of detention in the FSIN institution. This was announced by the source of Siberia. Realities, familiar with him.

Koretsky has been contained in the Altai isolator since April 2022. He is pursued in a criminal case of fraud for 5 million rubles with shared construction of four houses for veterans of the Great Patriotic War in the Maiminsky district. In 2011, the investigation was suspended, and Koretsky was put on the wanted list. “Local entrepreneurs stole it on construction, and they set it up,” the editorial interlocutor comments on the events.

In letters to relatives (copies are at the disposal of Siberia. Realii), Koretsky says that in the pre -trial detention center low temperature - in August last year he had "reached the kidneys", since there was no half of the window in the cell.

“I sleep with the [two sets] of thermal underwear and a tracksuit. Sometimes I have to wear a hat and gloves at night. By the evening, when the bosses are diverging home, heating is screwed,” the prisoner wrote in January 2023.

Koretsky also complains of nutrition and quality of medical care. According to him, prisoners are often feeded by pearl barley and pasta that he cannot eat. The interlocutor of Siberia. Realities notes that Koretsky has problems with the absorption of food-because of the fish that is served uncleaned, his liver hurts.

“I went to an appointment with the therapist, she immediately stated that we have no way to prescribe a diet. It is instead of analyzes and diagnosis. Potatoes should be given by normal-500 grams per person per day, but at best you can find a couple of potatoes. I have not seen rice and buckwheat for a couple of months. The meat, if it comes across, then some veins,” the prisoner notes.

In one of the January letters, Koretsky said that he would announce a hunger strike if the diet does not change. Also, judging by the correspondence with relatives, not all letters of the prisoner reached them. Due to complaints about the conditions of the detention, Koretsky spent about six months in the basement of Kricker of the pre-trial detention center, the interlocutor of the editorial office says.

May 22, 2023, after the announcement of the hunger strike, Koretsky for the first time - in more than a year of imprisonment - allowed to call his wife. Before that, he maintained a connection with the family who lives in the Crimea, only by mail.

“I already wrote complaints both to Barnaul and the Altai Republic’s prosecutor’s office, but all these complaints are not considered, but, most likely, they simply do not go anywhere. The system works to kill a person’s faith in justice and set the right to judicial protection - that is, simply to turn people into cattle. I really hope that this whole circus with my criminal case ends,” writes Koretsky.

In the apparatus of the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Republic of Altai, Semyon Semen, prisoner to Elena Strutskaya, was answered (the editorial office has a copy of the document) that the complaint about the terms of the husband’s maintenance was again sent to the Republican prosecutor's office and the regional department of the FSIN: “We hope that your situation will be safely resolved.”

"The answer is absolutely depersonalized - the unsubscription. Koretsky is in unbearable conditions in a single chamber: in a damp, cold basement, and you do not even bother to go and chat with a person," Strutskaya believes.

• Since 2013, the pre-trial detention center-1 in the Altai Republic (the village of Kyzyl-Ozek of the Maiminsky district) has been headed by Eduard Ketrar.
• Earlier, another prisoner of the SIZO-1, the journalist and founder of the Altai newspaper "Listov" Sergey Mikhailov , reported that letters with complaints of violations of the administration of the FSIN institution "are very often lost".