The convicted woman for transferring funds to the AFU, Galina Bekhter, was transferred to a prison hospital in Vologda

In October, Bekhter was transported to Vologda. Before that, in SIZO-1 in annexed Simferopol, she developed symptoms of dementia, which worsened over time.

The 68-year-old Bekhter was sentenced to 12 and a half years in a penal colony in a treason case over transferring funds to the AFU. Now doctors and psychiatrists will examine her condition: over the next two weeks, they plan to review documents and speak with her.

Cellmates wrote in letters that Bekhter refuses to eat, cannot eat by herself, lies down all the time, and does not change her clothes. According to them, she does not understand what needs to be done in the shower, does not control bodily functions, and suffers from fecal incontinence.

Biryukova said that the day before her arrival, on November 9, Bekhter was urgently hospitalized from the colony because she had “completely stopped eating”. After the transfer, the human rights activist saw her and described her as “a skeleton covered with skin”, barely able to stand on her feet and answering questions in a barely audible whisper.

According to Biryukova, Bekhter looked like a person who was “somewhere far away in her own world”, with a vacant stare and almost no reaction to what was happening. She quoted her as saying: “I know nothing... I know nothing”.