63-year-old Oleh Prykhodko is suffering from painful swelling of the legs due to the appalling treatment the recognized political prisoner is receiving in a Russian prison ‘for particularly dangerous criminals’

Dzhemil Gafarov suffers from a condition that should have prevented Russia from ever imprisoning him yet instead of releasing him, Russia is lying about his condition

The state of medical care for convicts (especially those serving sentences of physical isolation from society) is extremely poor today.

The reform of the SCES healthcare system failed to improve the quality of prison healthcare, which in most PIs remains unsatisfactory or outright catastrophic due to the shortage of medical personnel, equipment and medicines.

Teymur Abdullayev has spent virtually all of the last year in a Russian SHIZO or punishment cell, where the conditions are tantamount to torture

Human rights monitors have learned that the real rate of infection from Covid-19 in Russian-occupied Crimea is likely to be four times higher than the official figures, and the authorities are lying about the number of medical workers who have died as a result of the virus.

Even according to Russian legislation, 58-year-old Dzhemil Gafarov is much too ill to be held in detention, yet he remains imprisoned, with his lawyer constantly ignored or given evidently false information about Gafarov’s condition

At least 10 cells in the appallingly overcrowded SIZO [remand prison] in occupied Simferopol are ‘under quarantine’ with this almost certainly meaning that prisoners have been infected with Covid-19

The Crimean Human Rights Group [CHRG] has learned from different sources that the Russian occupation authorities are forcing medical staff and morgues to lie about the real number of deaths from Covid-19 in occupied Crimea .

Currently more than 52 000 persons are detained in penitentiary institutions and pre-trial detention centers in Ukraine, according to the information from the Ministry of Justice. Add to this number 28 000 of employees and we will receive the real picture that indicates another risk group that must be kept in sight when we talk about counteracting COVID-19.

A draft bill now before the Verkhovna Rada on compulsory psychiatric treatment has alarmed specialists in the field who believe that some of the norms infringe the rights of people with mental illness

Even a new norm in the criminal code and draconian punishments are not enough to conceal the dire situation, especially for those on the frontline in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic,

Russia is jeopardizing the lives of over 50 Crimean Tatars and other Ukrainians now held in detention on charges that pertain solely to their faith and civic activism

The outbreak of disease among convicts will be very ripping. It will not be a small fire that can be controlled, and not even a blaze in the house. It will be a great tragedy – a huge fire of the highest degree of danger that will capture everyone.

Two of the eight Crimean Tatar civic activists on trial in Russia have a temperature, a dry cough and / or other symptoms associated with coronavirus, yet no tests have been carried out, despite the evident danger to all of the men

Men who have committed no crime are deprived of adequate medical treatment and held in cells which are filthy, stuffy and so overcrowded that men have to take turns sleeping on the same bunks

58-year-old Dzhemil Gafarov is one of the oldest of the 24 Crimean Tatar civic activists and journalists arrested in Russian-occupied Crimea on 27 March 2019 and the most gravely ill. Please help put pressure on Moscow by signing the enclosed petition

Civil servants within Ukraine’s Health Ministry have addressed an open appeal to the Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk in which they say that the new management is jeopardizing the future of healthcare reforms in the country.

On a ’hospital’ for prisoners, where those with serious illnesses receive no treatment, and where there may well be ’paying patients’ without any identifiable illnesses

Ukrainian rights activist Andrey Yarovoi (Andriy Yarovyi] has become the laureate of the 2019 Carol and Travis Jenkins Award for his outstanding contribution to reducing drug-related harm, although he is imprisoned in the so-called ’Luhansk people’s republic’ and could not receive it himself.