Photo: Mikhail Metzel / TASS “Much like the prison staff, they think that inmates can be beaten, tortured and humiliated without consequence” Why public oversight committees in Russian regions are pushing out human rights lawyers and replacing them with ex-siloviki and businesspeople loyal to prison admin On 31 March 2021, Russian opposition politician Aleksey Navalny, while serving his sentence in Vladimir Oblast, went on a hunger strike that lasted till 23 April.

This Story is Also Available in English Geere From March 31 to April 23, politician Alexei Navalny, serving a deadline in the Vladimir region, kept a hunger strike - in protest against the absence of proper medical care in the colony. The attending doctors of Navalny called what was happening with a policy torture. However, the deputy head of the Public Supervisory Commission (PMC) of the Vladimir region, in response to complaints, accused Navalny of simulation.

Photo: Mikhail Metzel / TASS “Much like the prison staff, they think that inmates can be beaten, tortured and humiliated without consequence” Why public oversight committees in Russian regions are pushing out human rights lawyers and replacing them with ex-siloviki and businesspeople loyal to prison admin On 31 March 2021, Russian opposition politician Aleksey Navalny, while serving his sentence in Vladimir Oblast, went on a hunger strike that lasted till 23 April.

On 31 March 2021, Russian opposition politician Aleksey Navalny, while serving his sentence in Vladimir Oblast, went on a hunger strike that lasted till 23 April. He was protesting the absence of adequate medical care in his corrective labor colony. Navalny’s personal physicians called his treatment a torture. But the vice-chairman of the regional public oversight committee responded to Navalny’s complaints by calling him a malingerer.

Photo: Mikhail Metzel / TASS “They think in the same way as the FSIN employees: people can be tortured and whatever you want to do with them” Why in the public supervisory commissions in the Russian regions there are almost no human rights activists and how the security forces and loyal FSIN businessmen took their place From March 31 to April 23, politician Alexei Navalny, serving a deadline in the Vladimir region, kept a hunger strike - in protest against the absence of proper medical care in