Russian correctional facilities offer foreigners the opportunity to move to their home country to serve their sentences. Those who wish to do so must sign a consent form.
This is reported by edition “Important Stories” with reference to human rights activist Ivan Astashin and a source in one of the colonies. The proposal concerns citizens of Central Asian countries, Ukraine, Belarus and Western countries.
According to Astashin, a Ukrainian who had been placed in IK-8 in the Voronezh region before the war in Ukraine had approached him. The prisoner had long tried to obtain the right to serve his sentence in his homeland, and the day before, the head of the detachment had suggested that he write an application to be sent to Ukraine.
The publication's source reported that the FSIN leadership decided to expel foreign prisoners from all penal colonies and pretrial detention centers, fearing a repeat of the recent terrorist attacks in pretrial detention centers. Rostov-on-Don and IK-19 of the Volgograd region.
Another source familiar with the situation in IK-17 in Mordovia reported that the colony's management summoned all foreign prisoners to “study statistics.” They were also asked to write applications to be sent home. After that, one of the prisoners began to be prepared in IK-17 for sending to Belarus.
By data According to a Radio Liberty source, in addition to citizens of former Soviet countries, two US citizens and Polish citizen Marian Radzaevsky, who was sentenced to 14 years in prison for espionage in 2019, announced their plans to return to their homeland in IK-17.
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