RussianNews correspondent Maria Ponomarenko, who was sentenced to 6 years in prison for alleged fraudulent activity against the Russian Armed Forces, wrote a letter in SIZO-2 in which she stated that she was beaten by the doctors of the psychiatric brigade. The city of Biysk. It has been reported KommersantWith a link to the RusNews Telegram channel.
As they say on the Telegram channel, they started looking for Ponomarenko in the pre-trial detention center, took some products from the program they brought the previous day and forced him to undress, but he refused. This caused him to have a nervous breakdown, RusNews wrote, after which detention center officials called doctors from the psychiatric brigade to report the journalist who had beaten him.
The journalist’s letter states that he was “thrown at a search table, his hands were wrapped and tied”, then “thrown on the ground” by ambulance and taken to the hospital, where they were “held without him for three days”. provide any treatment.”
“When they dragged me into the ambulance (they dragged me – they didn’t, that’s right), they beat me in the back, chest, stomach, head, when they threw me on the stairs,” the journalist said.
Maria Ponomarenko due to Telegram posts about the alleged Russian air raid on a drama theater in Mariupol in April 2022. She was detained in St. Petersburg. The Russian Ministry of Defense denied this information.
In September, Ponomarenko said During a court hearing to extend his detention, he said he tried to commit suicide in a pre-trial detention centre. According to the journalist, doctors diagnosed him with hysterical personality disorder and claustrophobia.
February 15 Ponomarenko prisoner At the age of six in a general regime colony in a forgery case against the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, he pleaded not guilty in the courtroom.