"Both times I was in the SIZO, I was immediately handed over to the razrabotchiki," the former prisoner said. One of the torture victims, a prisoner who served two stints in Irkutsk SIZO-1 in 20, as well as serving time in two of the region's prisons, IK-14 and IK-15, and who asked that his name be withheld, described his experiences to RFE/RL. Source Of Russian Prison-Abuse Videos Flees To France To Seek Asylum "More than 100 of those 400 endured depraved, violent acts," Osechkin said. founder Vladimir Osechkin told RFE/RL that based on Golikov's statement, testimony from three Irkutsk SIZO-1 employees whose identities have been withheld, at least 10 other razrabotchiki, and 30 tortured inmates, the NGO estimates that more than 400 inmates underwent torture at Irkutsk SIZO-1.
"In order to survive, I paid more than 30,000 rubles every week to an operative," Matushkeyev said. In Russian prison culture, if an inmate is known to have been raped, he is assigned to the lowest caste in an internal hierarchy and given the dirtiest and most humiliating tasks, such as cleaning out the toilets and sewers. "Afterward, they gave the recorder back to the operative as a report of their special operation to collect compromising material," he added. "I saw how SIZO-1 operatives gave Denis Golikov a video recorder through the food slot and how Golikov and others recorded the tortures and rape. "I was in the 'working over' isolation cells for more than a year and participated in tortures," he said. I still don't understand how I managed to get out alive. They were blackmailed by the fact that their abuse was recorded, and they threatened to release that material." "After the rapes, the prisoners were forced to sign false confessions, self-incriminations, and also to 'cooperate' further with investigators - that is, to give false testimony not only against themselves but against other prisoners, too. "I gave the money to an FSIN officer - 30,000 rubles for food and steroids for the cell's senior razrabotchik, Denis Golikov, and other torturers," Matushkeyev said. He told RFE/RL that during his time in custody, prison workers extorted money from him on threat of torture and rape. Vladimir Matushkeyev is an entrepreneur from Irkutsk who served time at Irkutsk SIZO-1, the main pretrial detention center in the eastern Siberian city. "And the investigator promised to somehow 'settle matters' with the judge to get me parole." "In exchange, they promised not to touch me," Golikov added. You'd sign anything just to avoid listening to those screams - to say nothing about when they started working on you." People would scream for hours that they were being murdered…. The whole FSIN system needs to be dismantled and prosecuted. One of the perpetrators had admitted on camera to everything and speaks about the torture and rape of prisoners. 1 (SIZO-1) is the main torture center of the country. "Torture again," Lyubov Sobol, a lawyer and activist associated with imprisoned opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, wrote on Telegram on October 8. (Because of the graphic nature of the videos, RFE/RL has decided not to post them or to link to other sites that have done so.) FSIN announced it was investigating the torture videos, which were allegedly shot in prisons and detention centers in the Irkutsk, Vladimir, and Saratov regions between 20. Within hours of the story breaking, the Federal Prison Service (FSIN) announced it had fired the head of the prison service in the Saratov region, as well as several other top prison officials there.
Earlier this month, the nongovernmental - which tracks human rights abuses by Russian police and in Russian prisons - disclosed the existence of more than 40 gigabytes of video material graphically documenting beatings, rape, and torture of inmates in prisons and pretrial detention centers.
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