"Take off your sweater": Municipal Deputy Alexei Gorinov reported the cold in his cell and threats for refusing to take off his clothes.
Former municipal deputy from Moscow Alexey Gorinov asked to be hospitalized due to bronchitis and the cold in the cell, сообщает Mediazona. Today, a hearing was held to consider Gorinov's defense's appeal against the prosecutor's office's refusal to reinvestigate his case. Gorinov participated via video link from the Altai prison colony.
He said he's been locked in a cell-like room for a month and a half, where it's extremely cold: ice has formed on the inside of the frame, and Gorinov constantly wears a sweater to keep warm. He also claims he's being forced to take it down under threat of physical force.
As a result, Gorinov fell ill with bronchitis and has already been hospitalized three times because of it.
"I just sit by the radiator all day," — Gorinov told the lawyer before the hearing.
In 2016, Alexey Gorinov suffered from tuberculosis, which resulted in part of his lung being removed.
Before this, Aleksey Gorinov served his sentence in pretrial detention center No. 1 in Vladimir area, where is it too tortured cold. Last week, this isolation ward was recognized as the best in the region in an interdepartmental competition.
