"Yevgeny Vitishko is a prisoner of conscience, punished for exposing environmental damage around the construction of the Sochi Winter Olympics. He has been charged with a string of petty crimes in recent years - from allegedly damaging a fence, to swearing at a bus stop - as local authorities attempt to restrict his movements and clamp down on dissenting views. In February 2014, he was sentenced to three years in prison for apparently damaging a fence. The charges, his conviction and Yevgeny's trial and appeal are all suspect - designed to punish him for speaking out. On 19 March 2014, Environmental Watch for North Caucasus were informed that Yevgeny had been transferred to penal colony N2 in the Tambov region. A member of the local prison monitoring commission reported that Yevgeny is in quarantine. There is no additional information yet about how he is and whether he has any health problems."