MOSCOW, January 31 (RAPSI) – Over 600 doctors have asked the Russian President’s Council for Human Rights to intervene in the notorious case of well-known hematologist Elena Misyurina, sentenced to two years in prison, the Council’s official website reads on Wednesday.

In 2013, Misyrina conducted a diagnostic procedure, bone marrow trephine biopsy, for a patient, who died soon afterwards. The court found the doctor guilty of violating safety regulations that led to the patient’s death. Misyrina denied wrongdoing and her defense insists that the procedure was not related to the tragedy.

Misyrina’s case caught public attention with many medical professionals expressing support for the defendant and saying that the procedure could not cause the patient’s death.