Human rights activist: A Russian citizen was unjustly detained and tortured in China
Even in states relatively friendly to Moscow, Russian citizens are unjustly detained and tortured.
Russian human rights activist Alexander Brod stated this during a press conference in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Among the violations of the rights of Russians are extrajudicial and unlawful detentions, arbitrary court sentences. Among the Russian citizens imprisoned abroad, there are several people in the United States. Among the countries where Russians are languishing in prison are France, Indonesia, India, Turkey, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, China, Lithuania, Estonia, Ukraine, and Moldova. Many of these citizens are detained and convicted unfairly, or are in completely intolerable conditions,” Brod said.
According to him, Russian citizen Artur Materikin has been held in pre-trial detention in China for four years, whose mother contacted the Russian Foreign Ministry and human rights organizations, alleging the injustice of the imprisonment and the torture used.
“She appeals to both our organization and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, alleging the inaction of Chinese lawyers, and that the interrogation protocols signed in Chinese were distorted. Her son was subjected to psychological and physical pressure, including torture with an electric shock and starvation. And he talks about shifting responsibility from the real culprits to the Russians,” the human rights activist added.
He says that this issue was personally raised by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, but only a relative acceleration of the matter was achieved. Arthur Materikin has not yet been sentenced.
“It’s painful to read such letters, and we receive hundreds of such requests every year,” Brod concluded.
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