August 23, 2005

Lawyers Rap Lebedev's Transfer to Punishment Cell

Platon Lebedev's lawyer Yelena Liptser described the conditions of his incarceration. "It is a tiny room, the length of a human body. It is also very narrow. The bunk is lowered at 10:00 in the evening and raised at 6:00 in the morning. At all other times, an inmate can either stand or sit on the floor. He can take only two steps forward and two steps backward," she said. Lebedev can only eat in the cell, she said. "For the time of his stay in the punishment cell, all parcels and correspondence are prohibited. As before he is not being given any medicine," she said.

(Source: Interfax.)