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Kremlin on Dadin's transfer: it is necessary to disperse feuding parties
At a meeting with members of Russia's Human Rights Council, first deputy head of the Presidential Administration Sergei Kiriyenko discussed the situation of prisoner Ildar Dadin who complained of torture in prison.
Kiriyenko said that the decision to transfer Dadin to another colony had been the right one in the interest of dispersing feuding parties. The Kremlin also stated that it is necessary to look into why members of public monitoring commissions are not allowed to personally access files on prisons. According to Kiriyenko, there are ongoing discussion on providing permanent financing for Russia's Public Oversight Commission in light of the fact that the body no longer has the opportunity to receive money from foreign investors.
Human rights activists have spoken to Kiriyenko about possibly changing Russia's law on foreign agents. The official believes that the law cannot be revoked, but that it can be improved.
- On December 5, it became known that Ildar Dadin was transferred from colony number 7 in Karelia to another penal colony. Officially, the Federal Penitentiary Service did not notify relatives about Dadin's whereabouts, but his wife, Anastasia Zotova, learned that the prisoner had been transferred to the Kirov region.
- Dadin was imprisoned for organizing one-man protests - the first to be punished under new amendments to Russia's criminal code. In December 2015, he was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison.
- On November 1, 2016, Meduza published a letter written by Dadin to his wife. In the letter, Dadin reveals the torture that he is enduring at the hands of prison authorities at penal colony number 7 in the town of Segezha.
- After an investigation, the Federal Penitentiary Service claimed that there were no signs of torture on Dadin's body.
- Dadin letter had a wide resonance. With the prisoner met with Russia's Human Rights Commissioner Tatiana Moskalkova. Dadin refused to be transferred to another colony, saying that he is responsible to the other prisoners.