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The inmates of the colony number 5 in Nizhny Tagil went on a hunger strike and demanded easing of the regime of exemptions and privileges. On Monday, July 24, reported RIA Novosti the representative of the Federal penitentiary service for the Sverdlovsk region Alexander Levchenko. According to him, one of the convicts sought permission to see a couple of their spouses.
“There are exotic requirements. For example, among them there are some citizens who profess Islam, and their relatives live in the Central Asian States. Here is one man who has several wives and he wants them to come out at the queue. We have no such legislation does not provide,” he said.
Levchenko added that food refused 15. On July 19, they do not go for Breakfast, lunch and dinner, but eat food from the transmission. Three defiantly cut herself. The condition of the convicts watched by the doctors, the psychologists.
As an example, the representative of the Federal penitentiary service has also led a prisoner who demanded to allow him to talk on the phone in English. Levchenko explained that the conversations of convicts are monitored, so to communicate in foreign languages is impossible.
He stressed that this colony, which contained “the flesh Tearers, murderers, pedophiles,” therefore, no relief can not be.
In October 2016, it was reported that several dozen colonies Rybinsk on a hunger strike. The reason for the protests was the dissatisfaction with conditions. The year before that went to the same prisoners in the Perm Nyrob because of the searches conducted by the Federal penitentiary service.