Political prisoner Serhiy Tsyhypa is placed in solitary confinement by Russians for refusing to work - wife

Serhiy Ts ygipa, a journalist from Nova Kakhovka, who was kidnapped by Russians and illegally convicted, is being forced to work by the administration of penal colony No. 3 in Skopin, Ryazan region, and transferred from a general cell to a punishment cell if he refuses to work.

This was reported by Serhiy Tsygipa's wife ,Olena Tsygipa, according to the ZMINA media outlet.

While Serhiy was in the punishment cell, Olena was unable to send him a parcel, because according to the rules of the colony, this can be done once every six months. He was in the general cell for only one or two days.

"I am very worried that he is there without warm clothes, because it is winter, and in Russia it comes very quickly," the activist explains.

Currently, the woman has lost contact with her husband, so she does not know whether her letters reach him. Olena even puts another envelope in the postcard so that Serhiy can write to her.

"That's why we went on an international advocacy tour to tell the world community about the lawless actions of Russians at all levels of government," she adds.

Before the correspondence was stopped, Olena knew that Serhiy was constantly sent to the disciplinary isolation ward ( DIZO ) for disobeying the colony administration. The man was punished because of candy found in his bedside table or the unbuttoned top button on his prison robe. Penitentiary staff consider this a violation of the prison regime.

"When he was on the sports ground one day, the warden asked him what he was doing there. He explained that he had free time and was entitled to it. He was told that he was only entitled to what they allowed him to do. They punish prisoners for throwing up water bottles and pieces of bread. In other words, they make people weak-willed and disenfranchised," says his wife.

Earlier, Serhiy's wife, Olena Tsygipa, who continues to fight for the release of her husband and other political prisoners, told Intent in an exclusive interview about Serhiy's detention, the trial, trust in the lawyer, fear and love story.

Earlier, the CTRC published a full list of elderly people enslaved by the occupation authorities of Crimea. According to their data, 17 political prisoners over the age of 60 are being held in the colonies and pre-trial detention centers (SIZO) of the occupied Crimea. Most of them have been sentenced to 5 to 18 years in prison. Among them is Serhiy Tsyhypa, a journalist and writer from Nova Kakhovka, Kherson region.

The Center called on Russia to immediately release all of the above-mentioned people and other political prisoners, as well as to stop systematically violating human rights in Crimea.

The organization noted that such terms of imprisonment can be fatal for elderly Crimean political prisoners. Especially if they have severe and chronic illnesses, which are aggravated by the conditions of detention in the pre-trial detention center or colony, systematic ignoring of complaints by the administration of the institutions and inadequate, untimely medical care.

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