2023-12-16 17:18:43
In Russia, an imprisoned opponent has disappeared from his prison, his supporters are worried
A former Moscow municipal deputy, Alexeï Gorinov, sentenced to seven years in prison for having denounced the attack in Ukraine, has disappeared from his prison, his supporters reported on Friday, who are concerned about the deterioration of his state of health: “Alexei Gorinov’s lawyers have been trying all week to get certain information about his health and whereabouts. We can say that Alexei is not in Penal Colony No. 2 in Pokrov.”they said.
“We assume and hope that Alexei Gorinov was transferred to the hospital because he absolutely needs to receive hospital care”, continued this group, in a message on Telegram. Alexei Gorinov, 62, was serving his sentence in Pokrov, in the Vladimir region, about 200 kilometers east of Moscow.
On December 8, still according to his supporters, one of his lawyers was able to visit him and noted that he was in a “very poor state of health”. He didn’t even have the strength to “stand on a chair and talk”. His support group points out that he was suffering from bronchitis at the time, had “trouble breathing” and was deprived of his medication and care, even though he has had chronic lung difficulties since part of one of his lungs was removed during an operation in 2016.
In July 2022, Alexei Gorinov became the first opponent to be sentenced for “disseminating false information” about the Russian army, under a new law passed a few weeks earlier to punish those denouncing the conflict. Since then, hundreds of other people, recognized activists or anonymous, have been imprisoned for the same reason. The main figures of the Russian opposition are in prison or in exile abroad.
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