Meetings with political prisoners: Alexander Skobov met his wife, and Mikhail Kriger met his brother.

Skobov's wife, Olga Shcheglova posted in a support group post about her first meeting with her husband: 

"The conversation is taking place over the phone, but an officer can intervene not only by reprimanding someone for discussing something prohibited, but also without any reason. Alexander himself, through two panes of glass, the corridor, and the bars, looks fine after his transfer and quarantine, except he's gone as gray as a hawk."

Alexander Skobov is a dissident who served two forced labor sentences in the USSR for "anti-Soviet activities." A year ago, he was arrested in St. Petersburg, accused of justifying terrorism and participating in the "Free Russia Forum."

Skobov is being held in a cell shared by four people. In prison, he receives medications that weren't provided in the pretrial detention center, and he is examined by specialist doctors "as best they can." The food, while not dietary, is adequate, Olga writes. 

"The most tormenting thing for him is the lack of any information about events in the outside world: there's no radio or television in the cell," Shcheglova continues. According to her, the only source of information is letters from outside. But reading letters printed in small print is detrimental to Skobov's vision, which he already had problems with. "And it's a terrible choice: what to choose: to deprive him of the air he breathes or to condemn him to a more rapid onset of blindness." 

Political activist Mikhail Kriger, who is on a dry hunger strike, I was on a date Brother Pavel. He noticed that Mikhail had lost a significant amount of weight, but there were no other changes. Krieger said that prisoners weren't being given forms to reply to emails (even though the forms had already been paid for by the sender), and asked that the issue be addressed to human rights activist Eva Merkacheva. Krieger's hunger strike, which has been ongoing for over 20 days, is a protest against the prison conditions and trumped-up punishments.