Mortality in Russian pretrial jails drops by 21% in 4 years

Interfax

26 October – Mortality among inmates in Russia’s pretrial detention centers has dropped by 21% for the past four years and makes up a little more than 20% of the general nationwide death rate, said the head of Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service, Alexander Reimer.

In an interview posted on the agency’s website, Reimer argued that, due to recent legislation allowing crime suspects who are in custody and suffer from serious diseases to be released, “the situation will keep improving.”

Mentioning the death in a Moscow jail in November 2009 of Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer for the Hermitage Capital investment fund, Reimer claimed that quite often the reason why detainees and convicts die is that they find out they are chronically ill after being arrested.

Magnitsky, 37, died at Moscow’s Matrosskaya Tishina prison on November 16, 2009. He was being held on charges of tax evasion. His death caused widespread public outcry. The Investigative Committee started an inquiry into his death on charges of “not aiding a patient” and “negligence.” But rights activists claimed that Magnitsky’s death had not been investigated in earnest.

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