Photo: Alexander Ivshin
While Waiting for an Appeal Against the Harsh Sentence, Aleksandr Ivshin Visited Five Pre-Trial Detention Centers in 1.5 Months and Fell Seriously Ill
Krasnodar TerritoryAleksandr Ivshin, 63, is awaiting an appeal against the harsh sentence for his faith. The hearing will be held by conference call from the SIZO of the city of Syzran (Samara region) on April 15, 2021. Within 2 weeks, the pensioner was transported from one pre-trial detention center to another in five regions of Russia. On the way, he fell seriously ill.
Aleksandr was kept in basements of pre-trial detention centers. He spent a day in Novorossiysk, and then 4 days each in Rostov-on-Don, Volgograd and Saratov. In the Krasnodar Territory, the employees of the pre-trial detention center made holes in Aleksandr's dishes, he had only a spoon left.
After becoming infected with the coronavirus, the elderly believer suffered the disease very hard: he fell and lost consciousness multiple times, and he lost his sense of smell, which has not yet recovered. He was not provided medical care. Aleksandr was very weak, so when he was transferred to the next jail, he could only carry a mattress. His personal belongings had to be distributed among the prisoners.