Act of disobedience in a correctional colony

Dear human rights defenders, representatives of non-governmental organisations, lawyers, and people who are not indifferent to the problems of penal institutions.
As it has become known from unofficial sources of information, in the maximum-security correctional colony No. 58 in the city of Iziaslav, 84 convicts have announced an indefinite hunger strike today in protest against the overly harsh regime and conditions of detention, and inhumane treatment by the administration. Each of the convicts has their own personal demands for the administration of the correctional facility and is determined to draw attention to their person in this way. But what unites these people is that they are all held in cell-type premises in inhumane conditions. As is well known, Iziaslav colony No. 58 is famous for its harsh conditions of detention and the administration's brazen, degrading treatment of prisoners. Some of the convicts’ names are known: B. Serhii, Sh. Stepan, N., M. Ihor (full names are known to the “Prison Portal”). Since information about the event and the details of the incident have to be obtained illegally, it is currently impossible to verify the extent of the act of disobedience, the number of hunger strikers, and the reasons that drove people to take such radical measures. The Odesa Committee of the All-Ukrainian Public Association “Centre for Human Rights ‘Svoboda’” calls on the public to take possible actions to clarify and verify the facts related to the mass riots in colony No. 58, and to take all possible measures to prevent potential danger that a large-scale act of disobedience may cause. We will continue to inform the public about the course of events in the Iziaslav correctional facility.