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July 23, 2018

Six arrested in wake of leaked Russian prison torture video

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Asia Europe Torture Russia

Six prison employees have been arrested and at least 17 fired following the release of a 2017 video showing a detainee being tortured at a prison outside Moscow.

June 20, 2018

Russia: lawmakers finally move forward with legislation that could release 100,000 prisoners

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Asia Europe Russia

After 10 years, the State Duma has adopted a second reading of legislation that would mean less time behind bars for Russians convicted of many crimes.

May 23, 2018

Russia: security forces in Ingushetia on trial for torture

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Asia Europe Torture Russia

The trial is practically unprecedented in Russia - torture and even the murder of detainees is a common pheonomenon.

April 14, 2018

Russia: detainees who had rebelled against systematic torture sentenced to heavy sentences

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Asia Europe Torture Russia

At the end of a lengthy trial, 17 participants in a protest that took place in the Kopeysk penal colony (Ural Region) in November 2012 in response to systematic torture practices were sentenced to up to 5 years of prison by the Chelyabinsk Regional Court for “mass riots.”

January 17, 2018

Russian prisoners : backtracking

Investigations

Europe Russia

— Published 9 February 2018.¶ A shortage of medical assistance, abusive convictions…Russia continues to violate the law in its prison system. By excluding activists from prison visiting commissions, the government has taken another step toward illegal and inhumane practices. The famous and brave j…

December 12, 2017

In Russia, the prisoners are dragged around

Analysis Report

Asia Europe Overcrowding Torture Violence Russia

6,000 km, silenced journey, utmost opacity.

September 15, 2017

Russie : Une membre des Pussy Riot raconte les traitements subis dans une prison pour femmes

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Women Asia Europe Russia

This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version

July 24, 2017

How the gulag lives on in Russia's prison economy

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Asia Europe Russia

In Russia, running a prison is a business, Olga Romanova writes for the Carnegie Center.

July 24, 2017

How the gulag Llves on in Russia's prison economy

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Asia Europe Russia

In Russia, running a prison is a business. The Soviet gulag may have transformed into Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN), but its essence arguably is unchanged. With 434 prisoners per 100,000 people, Russia has the highest incarceration rate in Europe. It’s 143 in the UK, 101 in France, a…

June 5, 2017

Russia : Russian Interior Ministry ordered to pay $1,200 to man tortured by police

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Asia Europe Torture Violence Russia

The Supreme Court of Tatarstan has ordered Russia’s Interior Ministry to pay 70,000 rubles ($1,200) to a man tortured in a police office, lawyer Andrey Suchkov told RAPSI on Monday.

May 22, 2017

Thinking Allowed: Russian prison visitors - prison boundaries

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Asia Europe Social ties Russia

Relatives of Russian Prisoners: Judith Pallot , Professor of the Human Geography of Russia at the University of Oxford talks to Laurie Taylor about her research into the experiences of the wives, mothers, girlfriends, daughters who, as relatives of Russia’s three-quarters of a million prisoners, ar…

April 12, 2017

Russia: more than 100 gay men 'sent to prison camps' in Chechnya

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Asia Europe Russia

Abuses allegedly included mean being taken outside and beaten several times a day, having their hands electrocuted and being forced to sit on bottles

March 10, 2017

Russia’s prison population hits all-time low

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Asia Europe Russia

The number of people in Russian penitentiary facilities has gone down to the lowest level since collapse of the USSR, the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) told TASS on the eve of the Penitentiary Day, marked on March 12. Back in 1879, Emperor Alexander II established the prison department.

February 13, 2017

Russia orders prison inmate on hunger strike to pay his own medical costs

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Asia Europe Russia

Rusia has ordered a prisoner to pay his own medical costs after he went on hunger strike over jail conditions, his lawyer said today, a move that could curb protests against poor treatment of convicts.

November 1, 2016

Russia : jailed activist alleges torture, threats in prison letter

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Asia Europe Torture Russia

A jailed Russian opposition activist has accused a prison warden of overseeing the systematic torture of inmates and of threatening to kill him, allegations made in a desperate letter to his wife that he asked her to publish to save his life.

November 1, 2016

Russia activist Ildar Dadin accuses prison of torture

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Asia Europe Torture Russia

Russian officials are investigating claims that a well-known opposition activist has been repeatedly beaten and threatened in prison. Ildar Dadin is serving two and a half years for a series of street protests. He told his lawyer that he had been strung up by his handcuffed wrists, had his head sho…