Afanasyev transferred from colony to solitary confinement – lawyer

Ukrainian citizen Gennady Afanasyev, who is serving his sentence in the colony-25 in the Russian city of Syktyvkar, has been transferred to a solitary confinement.

Now he stays in a solitary-confinement cell in the village of Mikun, a hundred kilometers from Syktyvkar, Crimea.Realities portal reports referring to his lawyer Alexander Popkov.

According to him, the imprisonment conditions of Afanasyev were seriously tightened.

“He will stay in a closed solitary confinement 24 hours a day. This transfer was expected, it followed all the searches conducted in Afanasyev’s cell,” Popkov said.

Olga Afanasyeva, the mother of the prisoner, said that the defence of her son would appeal against the severe imprisonment conditions of Gennady.

“He [Afanasyev] has written a number of complaints demanding to inspect a SIM card found in his belongings [the found SIM card was the reason for his transfer], to establish its owner and to prove that Gennady did not use it. That decision was illegal. However, this will take time while his conditions will be very difficult,” Olga Afanasyeva said.

She added that a solitary-confinement cell, where her son stays now, provides no opportunity for meetings, phone calls, letters.

As a reminder, a court hearing at which the lawyers of Afanasyev will appeal against the imprisonment conditions will take place on February 12.

February 3, the special task force officers of the Russian Federal Service for the Execution of Sentences searched the ward of Ukrainian citizen Gennady Afanasyev and seized all the documents. In addition, a SIM card was allegedly found in the jacket of Afanasyev.

Later, the lawyer informed that the connection with Afanasyev was lost.