The PMC reported a shortage of folding beds in Moscow pre-trial detention centers due to overcrowding

In pre-trial detention centers in Moscow, the limit of prisoners has been exceeded, said Olga Druzhinina, deputy chairman of the Moscow Public Monitoring Commission (POC). According to her, because of this, there are not enough folding beds in the pre-trial detention center.

Ms. Druzhinina explained that the number of people in custody has increased dramatically during the coronavirus pandemic. She clarified that “for the second year, the excess has been maintained by an average of 20%. In her opinion, the situation will change only if investigators, prosecutors and judges pay attention to it.

“Naturally, in such conditions it is impossible to observe human rights. When there are 10,000 beds and 12,000 people, we can only strictly ask: where is the cot? But there aren’t even that many folding beds, because it’s not provided for,” a PMC member said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

In October, a member of the Presidential Human Rights Council (HRC), Eva Merkacheva, told Kommersant that in Moscow “the transfer of pre-trial detention center prisoners to hospitals” for diagnosis and emergency treatment has stopped. Civilian medical institutions, she said, do not accept persons under investigation, citing the lack of agreements between the Department of Health and the Moscow Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service. In the capital’s depzdrav denied a failure in the provision of medical care.

Details – in the material “Kommersant” “Prisoners are not called to the doctor”.

Laura Keffer