Human rights defenders showed new footage of torture of prisoners in jail

The Gulagu.net project showed footage of prisoners being bullied in the Saratov region over prisoners in the regional tuberculosis hospital No. 1 (OTB-1) of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Saratov region. RBC writes about this.

According to human rights activists, in the prison hospital, other convicts committed rape and torture of prisoners, who allegedly acted on the instructions of high-ranking officers of the Federal Penitentiary Service and law enforcement agencies. Those who did not want to cooperate with the administration were subjected to torture.

The project also said that the bullying was supervised by at least five employees of state bodies.

On October 5, the first video with the rape of prisoners in a hospital appeared on the network Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Saratov region. Then others appeared. According to human rights activist Vladimir Osechkin, 40 gigabytes of video with torture of prisoners were filmed by officers of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia on service video recorders. After that, criminal cases were opened, the situation was taken over by the Prosecutor General's Office, the State Duma and the Federation Council.

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