The three-minute video was published on Monday evening by the non-governmental organization Gulagu.net on its account on the social network Telegram and on its web. He captures how a naked man with bound hands and feet in bed is raped by another man with the help of a long stick, another then shoots the scene and another clogs the victim’s mouth. In other shots, there is urine on the prisoners. According to Gulagu.net, the scene was filmed last February 18 at the prison hospital for tuberculosis convicts in Saratov, central Russia.
The shots are not suitable for underage viewers and weaker characters!
Source: reprofoto gulagu-net.ru
Source: reprofoto gulagu-net.ru
More than a thousand videos documenting the torture of prisoners
The NGO claims to have received more than a thousand videos from the informant confirming systematic torture in Russian prisons. Prisoners are tortured to confess to committing crimes or to cooperate with guards.
“A video of an illegal act against an unidentified man has been published on the Internet. To verify the reliability of the information, Alexander Kalashnikov, the director of the prison service, sent a group of central staff,” reported the FSIN prison service, according to Interfax. The inspection of correctional facilities was also announced by the General Prosecutor’s Office. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the country’s leadership knew about the video and called for a calm and quick verification of the authenticity of the footage. If the authenticity is confirmed, it will be a reason for serious action, he told reporters.
Source: reprofoto gulagu-net.ru
Where has all this been all those months and years? A concerned web owner asks
“A rape check … Where have all those months and years been? Why are all the reports inactive? Why do lawyers know about torture chambers, and they don’t ‘know’ in the Kremlin? Or they know and deceive.” asks critically the founder of Gulagu.net. He complained that his website was blocked by Russian authorities, which emigrated the project’s founder.
“The Russian authorities are hypocrites. They will do anything to avoid responsibility for this torture factory,” Gulagu.net founder Vladimir Osechkin, who lives in exile in France, told AFP. In other videos, it is possible to see the author of the video forcing four male prisoners to grab the genitals of other prisoners.
Source: reprofoto gulagu-net.ru
Interfax recalled that the Gulagu.net project, established in 2011 to defend prisoners’ rights, officially ended its activities in Russia this May.
We have been hearing about these stories for a long time, but so far there has been no evidence, says the ombudswoman.
Human Rights Defender Eva Merkacheva told Echo of Moscow that horrible stories had been circulating about what was happening at Saratov Prison Hospital, but so far there was no evidence. He assumes that the rape guards make money: they suggest to the convicts that they be redeemed for an amount ranging from 50,000 to half a million rubles (approximately 600 to 6,000 euros), depending on the wealth of the prisoners’ relatives.
“One pays and is guaranteed by the guards not to rape him. Everyone else sees what is happening and understands that it is better to pay than not to pay and be subjected to torture.” she said. Another reason for torture may be the acquisition of prison informants or the need to force a prisoner to confess to committing a crime. “Many have been imprisoned for rape, robbery, murder, but they continue to commit atrocities behind the bars. The system does not lead to redress.” Merkacheva stated.
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