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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.
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Russia: a prisoners’ rights activist says escaped assassination
A prominent Russian prisoners’ rights activist exiled in France said Monday he had
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The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and Memorial Human Rights Defence Centre (HRDC Memorial) strongly condemn the crackdown following nationwide protests across Russia on 21 September to oppose “partial mobilisation” announced by Vladimir Putin. Mass arbitrary arrests of peaceful d…
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Russia: Alexei Navalny’s impassioned speech at the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court reviewed two lawsuits filed by Alexei Navalny against the Ministry
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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.
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Allegations of torture in correctional facilities across Russia have gained national attention after a leaked video showed the violent beating of an inmate at a prison in Yaroslavl. A number of prison guards and wardens have since been detained and some convicted, while the Federal Prison Service v…
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A rare survivor of the harshest Stalin-era labour camps has died aged 89 in Russia’s far east.
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Russia: répression féroce dans une prison de Sibérie
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Russia: the country recruits prisoners en masse for Ukraine deployment
Prisoners with combat experience across Russia are being recruited en masse
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Russia: the country runs a hidden prison system for Ukrainian in Crimea
Human rights monitors claim that occupation forces engage in torture
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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…
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Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov on Tuesday entered day 100 of his hunger strike, as he languishes in a Russian Arctic prison on terror charges with little hope of release.
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Former inmate Yevgeny Makarov describes how guards choked him with a towel and poured water into his mouth to suffocate him.
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El 14 de junio, Alexei Navalny fue trasladado de la colonia penitenciaria IK-5 (Pokrov, región de Vladimir) a otra de la misma región con un régimen de seguridad más estricto, la IK-6 (Melekhovo), donde el trato de las autoridades y los guardias penitenciarios se ha endurecido, según sus abogados.
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Russia: Brittney Griner facing ‘terrible’ life at remote penal colony
The inmates at IK-2 penal colony rise at 6 a.m. each day for a breakfast
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Russia: Putin critic Alexei Navalny dies in Arctic Circle jail
Russia’s most significant opposition leader for the past decade, Alexei Navalny, has
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Russia: prisoner war recruitment craze forces russian prison closures
The Kremlin has recruited so many inmates to boost its manpower in the war
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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.
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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.
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Russia: human rights crisis deepens as Navalny supporters arrested en masse
Russian authorities unleashed a crackdown on peaceful protesters