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IRKUTSK, Russia On March 7, 37-year-old Russian convict Yevgeny Rylsky died in a prison hospital in Irkutsk, to which he had been transferred a few days earlier from the notorious prison IK-15 outside Angarsk. His spleen had been ruptured, said Vladimir Osechkin, founder of the prisoners rights NGO Gulagu.net, citing several confidential sources among both prisoners and prison staff. His collarbone was broken, and other internal organs were injured. The doctors also found bedsores. That is, Rylsky had been beaten and had been lying in bed in life-threatening condition for at least three or four days at IK-15, during the time that an inspection commission from Moscow was there.