Political analyst Alexander Kynev has been transferred to a different pre-trial detention centre. He is unable to walk and has not been given crutches.

Political analyst Alexander Kynev has been transferred to Moscow pre-trial detention centre No. 4, “Medved” (“Bear”), reports SOTAvision, citing journalist Gleb Yarovoy, to whom Kynev replied in a letter. The political analyst wrote that he is expected to remain in a plaster cast for about three more weeks. He cannot walk because there are no crutches in the detention centre.

Kynev is currently in quarantine. According to him, he is receiving no news whatsoever, including official announcements. Yarovoy has called on people to write letters to the political analyst and share news with him.

Kynev was detained with the involvement of FSB officers. He ended up in Matrosskaya Tishina hospital with two fractures to his shinbone. “Slovo Zashchite” (“Word to the Defence”), citing a source in the Federal Penitentiary Service’s medical unit, reported that Kynev’s injuries were the result of torture. He was put in a plaster cast and his condition at that time was assessed as moderate.

On 25 September, the Perovsky District Court in Moscow sent Kynev to pre-trial detention for two months, charged with attempting to sell narcotics on a large scale (subparagraph “g” of paragraph 4 of article 228.1 of the Criminal Code). The political analyst does not admit guilt and the defence has appealed the arrest.