Senator Narusova has developed a bill providing for punishment of up to 10 years for torture 
10 years in prison. Its authors are the head of the Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Construction of the Federation Council Lyudmila Narusova and several other senators, Kommersant writes.
According to the newspaper, the document is going to be discussed on Monday, November 22, at a meeting specially created in the Federation Council working group headed by Narusova. The discussion will be attended by the chairman of the Federal Penitentiary Service Alexander Kalashnikov, Deputy Prosecutor General Nikolai Vinnichenko and Ombudsman for Human Rights Tatyana Moskalkova.
As Narusova noted, the bill was already being developed in the spring of 2019, when it became known about torture in a colony in the Yaroslavl Region. However, recent videos of torture in a tuberculosis hospital for inmates in the Saratov region prompted its consideration.
The bill calls the use of torture in law enforcement and the penal system an aggravating circumstance. Currently, according to Article 117 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“torture”), the punishment for torture is up to seven years in prison.
On October 5, the human rights project Gulagu.net published a video of the rape of prisoners in the hospital of the Saratov Federal Penitentiary Service. According to human rights activist Vladimir Osechkin, 40 gigabytes of video recordings of the torture of prisoners were filmed by FSIN officers on service video recorders. After that, criminal cases were initiated. The situation was taken over by the Prosecutor General's Office, the State Duma and the Federation Council.