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Rusia: las cárceles de Moscú, colmadas de seguidores de Navalny
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Russia: human rights activists have spent 30 years fighting for better privacy and cleaner facilities, but ‘holes in the floor’ persist
In recent weeks, the Russian authorities arrested thousands of demonstrators at protests across the country, sentencing hundreds to several days or weeks in jail. For many of these people, behind bars for the first time in their lives, state custody was a uniquely upsetting experience — particularl…Source — Meduza
Rusia: liberen a Aleksei Navalny, envenenado, detenido y condenado injustamente
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Russia: number of inmates decreases
The number of convicts held in correctional system facilities has decreased in Russia up to 482,000 people by the beginning of 2021, the Supreme Court’s head Vyacheslav Lebedev announced Tuesday. According to the highest instance’s Chairman, the number of detainees continues to decline. Last year,…Source — RAPSI
Rusia: detenciones de personas que protestaban pacíficamente
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Rusia: Navalny condenado a prisión mientras la detención masiva de sus simpatizantes deriva en hacinamiento grave y condiciones de reclusión crueles
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Russia: former political prisoner takes Russia to court over torture conditions in Crimean prison
Hearings have begun in occupied Crimea into the lawsuit brought by Kazim Ametov against Russia’s penitentiary service and police over the inhuman conditions he was held prisoner in for over two years. The chances of a Russian-controlled “court” finding in favour of the former political prisoner are…Source — The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group
Russia: Incendie dans une prison pour femmes de Moscou, 850 évacuations
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Russia: le mystère de la faible propagation du coronavirus dans les prisons
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Russia: after deadly prison riot in Siberia, officials are tight-lipped as families seek information on survivors
MOSCOW – It wasn’t until two days after Russian authorities violently suppressed a riot at his prison in Siberia that Kristina Ilinova learned her husband was missing. Yevgeny Ilinov was one of 200 inmates of Corrective Colony No. 15 who mutinied on April 9 in protest of their treatment by guards a…Source — Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty
Russia: penitentiaries in the pandemic
Russian officials say coronavirus hasn’t infected a single inmate, but COVID-19 has undeniably changed life behind bars in big ways Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, several countries around the world have begun releasing large numbers of inmates to curb the spread of the disease behind pri…Source — Meduza
Russia: répression féroce dans une prison de Sibérie
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Russia: transgender woman in Russia faces hard time in men's prison
Michelle had no idea that the erotic anime images she posted on social media years ago could land her in an all-male prison and endanger her life.Source — Radio Free Europe
Russia: new report offers government think-tank perspective on reforming the prison system
Russia has too many prisoners — more than 543,000, the largest imprisoned population per capita in Europe. Twenty-eight percent of Russian prisoners are behind bars for drug-related crimes, more than those imprisoned for either robbery or murder. Most of those individuals are drug users, not drug d…Source — Meduza
Russie : la CEDH condamne lourdement la Russie dans l’affaire Magnitski
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Russia: 'Black Hole', prosecutors probing allegations of punitive psychiatric treatment in Siberian prison
Igor Sovchuk, a prisoner at prison IK-6 in the city of Tyumen, Siberia, complained repeatedly of a headache. After being told repeatedly to shut up, the guards finally agreed to take him to the medical unit. He was given an injection and sent back to his cell.Source — RFERL
Russia: inmate dies in Russia after being tortured in "De Facto Murder," asctivists say
An inmate has died in a Russian prison as a result of torture, activists have reported, in what they say was a “de facto murder.” Several leaked videos showing prisoner abuse over the past year have led to a mass outcry over torture and nationwide inspections to root out violence.Source — The Moscow Times
Russia: detienen las clases de yoga en las cárceles por 'crear' presos homosexuales
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Russia: allegations of torture in the Northern Caucasian region
The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) has today issued a public statement on the Russian Federation urging the Russian authorities to take decisive action to eradicate the phenomenon of ill-treatment by law enforcement…Source — Conseil de l'Europe
Russia: prison guards suffer from 'moral fatigue,' officials says
Amid a continuing debate about the dire conditions in Russian prisons and repeated cases of torture there, a top official from Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) says its workers are suffering from “moral fatigue” as a result of low wages and daily contacts with inmates who sometimes atta…Source — Radio Free Europe
Russia: le directeur d'une prison suspendu après des cas de travaux forcés
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Russia: notorious 19th-century Moscow prison will be closed
Russian prison officials have announced plans to close the infamous Butyrka prison in central Moscow and relocate its inmates to the city’s outskirts.Source — The Moscow Times
Russia: prison torture victim 'brought back to life four times'
Former inmate Yevgeny Makarov describes how guards choked him with a towel and poured water into his mouth to suffocate him.Source — Skynews
Russia: inmates In far East launch hunger strike to protest prison conditions
Eight inmates in Russia’s Far Eastern Sakha-Yakutia region have launched a hunger strike to protest conditions at the prison where they are being held, the head of a regional human monitoring group says.Source — Radio Free Europe