Official statement of the Union of Political Prisoners of Ukraine! Political prisoner, human rights activist and anti-fascist Alexander Kosturn, who was 75 years old, died in Pyatikhatsky Correctional Colony No. 122 for political prisoners (concentration camp), in disciplinary isolation (thieves) - a pit of a good kind, where he simply did not have the right to be more than once for health reasons. That is why the management of the prison colony withheld information about his death for four months. Putting seventy-five sick people in a torture chamber is a deliberate and planned murder on the part of the prison administration. The association also knows that he was put in a detention center for fighting for the rights of prisoners and improving living conditions in prison colony No. 122 Piatihatzki. A sentence of 15 years in prison for a 70-year-old man is of course a death sentence.

Official statement of the Union of Political Prisoners of Ukraine! Political prisoner, human rights activist and anti-fascist Alexander Kosturn, who was 75 years old, died in Pyatikhatsky Correctional Colony No. 122 for political prisoners (concentration camp), in disciplinary isolation (thieves) - a pit of a good kind, where he simply did not have the right to be more than once for health reasons. That is why the management of the prison colony withheld information about his death for four months. Putting seventy-five sick people in a torture chamber is a deliberate and planned murder on the part of the prison administration. The association also knows that he was put in a detention center for fighting for the rights of prisoners and improving living conditions in prison colony No. 122 Piatihatzki. A sentence of 15 years in prison for a 70-year-old man is of course a death sentence.