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Convicted sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky has been transferred to the Federal Penitentiary Service’s prison hospital in Torzhok, Tver region, according to the publication Rabkor.
On 10 November, Kagarlitsky’s lawyer reported that his client had been placed in solitary confinement at Penal Colony No. 4 for “untidiness in his bedside cabinet.” According to Kagarlitsky, he was taken off the prisoner transport to the hospital and sent to the isolation cell instead. He is convinced that the decision did not come from the colony staff themselves. Kagarlitsky spent three days in solitary, during which his glasses were confiscated, leaving him unable to work or read.
Kagarlitsky has now been moved to the hospital, where “conditions are better, but day-to-day life and contact with the outside world have not yet been established.” Rabkor is asking people to show support for the sociologist by writing to him.
Boris Kagarlitsky was convicted under the article on “justification of terrorism” (part 2 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). He was initially fined, but in 2024, an appeal toughened his sentence to five years in a penal colony. In June, Kagarlitsky refused to apply for a pardon.
Letters can be sent via our service “Vestochka” or by post to:
172011, Tver region, Torzhok (a town north-west of Moscow), Staritskaya St., building 96
Regional hospital of the Federal Penitentiary Service for Tver region
To Boris Yulyevich Kagarlitsky, born 1958