Dmitry Talantov, 61, head of Udmurtia law chamber and Ivan Safronov’s lawyer, has no place to sleep in Moscow’s pre-trial detention centre #4, his lawyer Daniil Berman reports.

The facility is so overcrowded that people are forced to sleep on the floor with no mats or rolls. “Dmitry refused to sleep like that and spent the last night sitting on the bench,” Berman says.

Talantov is diagnosed with hypertension. Berman filed a complaint against the facility on the matter, and received a response that there is no help for it since the facility is extremely overcrowded: six hundred people are kept there above quota.

“The disabled are forced to sleep on the floor,” he added.

Dmitry Talantov was detained in Udmurtia in late June for “spreading fake news about the Russian army” for posting about Russia’s war crimes in Bucha, Irpin and Mariupol.

Talantov will be kept in custody at least until 21 August. The detectives believe that should be contained since “he is a lawyer and knows how investigations are done.”

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