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Prison riot reveals 'systemic' abuse in Russian jails

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. Share share Print 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 lawye...

Russian Lawmakers Introduce Bill Banning Lawyers From Recording Meetings With Inmates May 12, 2021 09:39 GMT Experts say that many Russian prisons have not been allowing lawyers to have mobile phones or cameras when visiting their clients for years. Share share Print A group of lawmakers in the Russian parliament's lower chamber, the State Duma, have introduced a bill that would ban lawyers from recording meetings with their convicted clients inside penitentiaries, a move that has sparked sharp criticism from rights activists as a way of muzzling prisoners such as opposition politician Alekse...

"I think they are trying a new tactic now," opposition politician and political analyst Leonid Gozman told Current Time, the Russian-language network run by RFE/RL in cooperation with VOA. Earlier, he said, the police would detain 2 or 3 percent of the protesters at a rally and the rest would go home feeling relieved. "Now we have a different situation," he continued. "They are signaling to everyone: 'Go ahead and march, guys, but a year from now you can expect we'll come, expect a knock at your door. And we'll come or not as we wish....' Now they have placed everyone in that position."

share Print 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 a...