In St. Petersburg, a terminally ill prisoner asks to be released from prison
The St. Petersburg City Court will consider the appeal of a prisoner with HIV who asks to be released from prison due to a serious illness, the human rights organization “Zone of Law” reports . The convict's lawyer, Vitaly Cherkasov, said that the 36-year-old man, serving his sentence in correctional colony No. 5, was diagnosed with HIV (stage 4 B), tuberculous meningoencephalitis, degenerative disease of the thoracic spine and chronic viral hepatitis C.