The wife of jailed Russian citizen Konstantin Yaroshenko on Tuesday received permission to see her husband and is currently heading for the first family visit in seven years of the man's detention, Russian High Commissioner for Human Rights Tatiana Moskalkova said.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 21st August, 2018) The wife of jailed Russian citizen Konstantin Yaroshenko on Tuesday received permission to see her husband and is currently heading for the first family visit in seven years of the man's detention, Russian High Commissioner for Human Rights Tatiana Moskalkova said.
Earlier in the day, Yaroshenkos wife Viktoria told Sputnik that she had arrived in the United States with her daughter Ekaterina and was waiting for permission to pay a visit to her husband.
"Today, his wife received permission, and she is currently heading there. It is the most important moment He has not seen his wife for seven years," Moskalkova said at a press conference at the Rossiya Segodnya International news Agency's media center.
The ombudswoman noted that she was still awaiting a US response to her request for permission to visit Yaroshenko.
A US court jailed Yaroshenko for 20 years in 2011 on charges of conspiring to import cocaine in the United States. In 2016, the New York Court of Appeals refused to revise the sentence. In early April 2018, the Russian Embassy in the United States voiced concerns about reports that Yaroshenko was enduring humiliation in US prison, calling on the prison's administration to stop violating the fundamental rights of the Russian citizen.
Last June, he was transferred from the Fort Dix prison in New Jersey to the Danbury correctional facility in Connecticut. After his transfer to Danbury, Yaroshenko said the staff at the new facility were nice to him but the detention conditions were worse than in the Federal low-security prison in Fort Dix. He complained about a cramped cell shared by 120 inmates, the Russian New York Consulate said.
