Court releases blind prisoner: unable to serve sentence

A court in the Tver region has released prisoner Dmitry Tulyaninov from serving his sentence due to his health. Before this, Tulyaninov spent almost four years behind bars in Moscow pretrial detention centers.

As MK reported earlier, Tulyaninov was sentenced to 8 years in prison for apartment fraud. We drew attention to the fact that Tulyaninov has been disabled since childhood. His visual acuity at the time of his placement in custody was 0.04%, which excludes detention. However, the forensic medical examination insisted that the only absolute contraindication for a prisoner is complete blindness.

During the time Tulyaninov was in Moscow's pretrial detention centers, his vision dropped from 0.04% to 0.01%, but this did not become a reason for his release. While the prisoner was in the pretrial detention center, he regularly received serious injuries: he bumped into sharp objects, was scalded with boiling water, once in the corridor he collided with a cart that was used to bring food to prisoners, flew over it and was ultimately seriously injured.

The court found Tulyaninov guilty of apartment fraud and sentenced him to eight years in prison. After that, he received the right to ask for release from serving his sentence due to health reasons. However, this procedure also dragged on for a long time. Initially, according to Tulyaninov, they wanted to "activate" him (this is what it means to undergo a medical commission to confirm the presence of diseases that prevent serving a sentence) in the hospital of the Matrosskaya Tishina pretrial detention center. However, he was then told that the doctor who participated in the commission was caught taking a bribe, and because of this, no one else would be "activated" from Moscow pretrial detention centers under government decree No. 54.

As a result, Tulyaninov was transferred to the Tver region. It is noteworthy that during the transfer itself, which Tulyaninov was especially afraid of, no medics accompanied him. He was able to move thanks to other prisoners who held his hands, directed him, and told him where there were obstacles. And already in the prisoner carriage, FSIN employees provided him with assistance, for which he was very grateful.

In the Tver region, Tulyaninov was first sent to the pretrial detention center in the city of Tver, where, according to him, nothing was provided for the disabled. From there he was transferred to a prison hospital in the city of Torzhok, where they came to the conclusion that he had an illness that prevented him from serving his sentence. As a result, on June 19, the court released him.

Now Tulyaninov plans to try to restore at least a little of his vision - to the same 0.04% that he had. According to him, since childhood he underwent a whole range of procedures in the hospital to see at least shadows. Now he has lost this opportunity.

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