Penitentiary Service In Siberia Removes Rights Groups From Inmate Torture Cases
June 03, 2021 12:15 GMT
In March, nine other probes were launched against prison officers over alleged torture of inmates in several penal colonies in the region.
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IRKUTSK, Russia Activists say Russia s Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) in the Siberian region of Irkutsk has used a legal maneuver to keep lawyers from human rights groups from defending cases of alleged torture in the region s jails and penal colonies.
Rights activist Svyatoslav Khromenkov
told RFE/RL on June 3 that three lawyers for the Siberia Without Torture group had received official letters from the FSIN saying they had been given the status of witnesses in high-profile torture cases, which under Russia law makes it impossible for them to defend the inmates.
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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.
Siberian Prison Officials Detained Over Alleged Torture Of Inmates
March 03, 2021 18:34 GMT
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IRKUTSK, Russia Top officials at two penitentiaries in the Russian city of Irkutsk have been detained after probes were launched into the alleged torture and rape of two inmates.
Russia s Federal Penitentiary Service s (FSIN) branch in the Siberian region of Irkutsk said on March 3 that the warden of Correctional Colony No. 6 and the chief of the operations department of Detention Center No. 1 in Irkutsk had been taken into custody.
According to the statement, the warden was detained over unlawful actions by inmates against inmate Bakiev, while the officer from the detention center was arrested over unlawful actions by inmates against inmate Ondar.
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