RusNews journalist Maria Ponomarenko opened her veins in a pre-trial detention center, where she has been in the fake case since April; she stayed alive. It is reported by RusNews. On August 25, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Barnaul extended her detention in the SIZO until September 29.
Ponomarenko has mental health problems, hysterical personality disorder was diagnosed, she has claustrophobia. She spent a week from September 6 to September 13 in a punishment cell for breaking a window in her cell, RusNews reports, now they want to send her back to the punishment cell.
According to Maria, being in a pre-trial detention center affected her psyche, which is why she broke a window and also opened her veins. She does not receive the necessary psychiatric care in the isolation ward.
“I consider the conditions of detention behind sealed windows to be torture. I pose no danger to society. The only person I can harm in a state of hysteria and depression is myself, ”Ponomarenko said during a meeting on the extension of detention in a pre-trial detention center. Lawyers are trying to get house arrest.
In July, Ponomarenko said that she was injected with unknown drugs in a psychiatric hospital, where she was sent for an examination.
Ponomarenko was detained on April 24 in St. Petersburg, where she moved from Barnaul at the end of March. On April 25, a search was conducted in her Barnaul apartment. The journalist is charged with an article about “fakes” about the Russian army (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) because of a post dated March 17 about the Mariupol theater destroyed by Russian troops.
Ponomarenko is forbidden to write letters to relatives and meet with them. She faces up to 10 years in prison. She has two minor daughters who are in her full care.