In March, as a result of a flood, IK No. 1 in Briansk where political prisoner Viktor Shur is illegally held was waterlogged. The prisoners were temporarily transferred to IK No. 6 in the city of Klyntsi. After returning back, Viktor, along with others, was forced to make repairs in the colony’s premises and lost many personal belongings.

‍“During the relocation to another institution, my father did not have time to take his pencils and paints for drawing with him. He also cannot answer letters from activists who write to him from the RF and Europe, because he simply does not have paper and a pen. My father says there is a lot of work to be done and the repairs will probably last until the fall. It is also impossible to send him a parcel, while nothing reaches the colony,” the prisoner’s daughter Olha Nalimova told the Association.

After the beginning of the new phase of the war, Viktor was offered to renounce his Ukrainian citizenship, which was granted to him while he was already behind bars.

According to his daughter, there is no psychological pressure on Shur because of his nationality now, and his health is satisfactory. They regularly communicate by phone, but they have to avoid political topics.

As a reminder, jeweler Viktor Shur was detained while trying to take photos of a closed security facility in Briansk region of the Russian Federation in 2014, which is actually an inactive airfield that was flooded in 1980s. His family received information about Viktor’s whereabouts only a month after his detention, when he pleaded guilty to the crimes he was charged with. In October 2015, Viktor was found guilty of spying for Ukraine and sentenced to 12 years under the article “treason”.