The father of Maria Butina, a Russian citizen jailed in the United States, has written to President Vladimir Putin about the torture his daughter has been subjected to in custody, a letter obtained by the RT broadcaster showed on Wednesday.
‘Being unable to prove her guilt in a fair trial, the American authorities set the objective to break her and force her to confess to the crimes she has never committed. She is subjected to sophisticated torture: for two weeks in prison she was not allowed to sleep, being woken every 15 minutes; she was also kept in a cold facility and denied medical care; subjected to humiliating strip searches, as well as to repeated and lengthy periods of administrative segregation, which, in total, have amounted to nearly three months,’ the letter said.