In St. Petersburg, the mother of a prisoner who died in “Kresty” sued the medical unit of the Federal Penitentiary Service for 200 thousand rubles
On May 20, the Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg recovered 200 thousand rubles from medical unit No. 78 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in favor of the mother of a prisoner who died in Kresty from cardiomyopathy. As Irina Sultanova’s lawyer Vitaly Cherkasov, who collaborates with the human rights organization “Zone of Law,” said, in July 2015, police detained the plaintiff’s son, Evgeny Romanov, on the street on suspicion that the man was drunk.