MOSCOW, May 18 (RAPSI, Diana Gutsul) – The St. Petersburg Сity Сourt has granted an appeal filed by legal team of a woman suffering from cancer and has released her from the prison hospital, her lawyer Vitaliy Cherkasov told RAPSI on Wednesday.

The appeal was supported by representatives of the prosecution and the prison hospital. The Commissioner for Human Rights in Leningrad Region Sergey Shabanov was present during the hearings.

“My client may now leave the prison and receive the qualified treatment in the specialized civil hospital,” Cherkasov said.

In March, the Smolninsky District Court in St. Petersburg refused to release two women suffering from late stage cancer from prison. The appropriate appeals were filed with the European Court of Human Rights.

Cherkasov reminded that since April three women with cancer died in St. Petersburg prisons, all of them were denied release by the Smolninsky District Court.