Irina Danilovich Faces Horrific Conditions in Russian Penal Colony

Kremlin's prisoner, Crimean human rights activist and citizen journalist Irina Danilovich is being held in terrible conditions in a penal colony in the Stavropol Territory of the Russian Federation.

According to Krym.Realii, this was reported by the head of the board of the ZMINA Human Rights Center Tatiana Pechonchyk. According to her, Danilovich and other prisoners are forced to endure the abuse of convoys, drink water with a dead body taste (due to the corpses of animals in the water supply system), they are forced to stand for hours in the rain and cold, deprived of food and proper medical care. The colony's premises are also full of rats and cockroaches.

The human rights activist also noted that Danilovich is being held in a barracks for 120 people without proper heating: in winter, ice freezes there, and in summer it is unbearably hot.

"The hygienic conditions are terrible - there are only a few taps in the bathroom for hundreds of women. Only those who work at the production site are allowed to go to the canteen first, and those who refuse can be left without food. Medical care is virtually non-existent: prisoners wait for months for doctors' consultations, and their medicines can be "lost," added Pechonchyk and noted that more than 60 Crimean political prisoners are being held in Russian prisons in such conditions, and they have critical health conditions due to the lack of medical care.

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