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. Although the Crimean Human Rights Group is aware of cases of pneumonia, Russia is fiddling the records and placing Crimean prisoners’ lives in danger by not ensuring proper diagnoses and not testing for Covid-19. This is true both of political prisoners held in occupied Crimea, and those in the Russian Federation, with the situation especially critical for a number of prisoners in their fifties and sixties with serious medical issues.
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City utilities crews are disinfecting apparent houses and streets in Sevastopol, Crimea, on April 7, 2020,in a bit to reduce novel coronavirus spread.
