Continuation of events at Colony No. 77
On 31 March, the KHRG appealed to the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights with a request to verify reports about the beating of inmates of Penal Institution No. 77 in Berdyansk by special forces and the transfer of inmates to the Zaporizhzhia SIZO. The KHRG reported this on 31 March: http://www.khpg.org/index.php?id=1206975818
On the same day, two representatives of the Commissioner left for Zaporizhzhia and Berdyansk. The result of their arrival was the withdrawal of the special forces (although the head of the penal institution, Yuriy Zavgorodny, had promised that the special forces would be in the colony until he “restored order”). The results of the investigation into the beating of inmate Oleksandr Kryvonos on the night of 30 to 31 March, shortly after which he died, are still unknown.