On this side of the thorn

A number of Russian human rights organizations have taken the initiative to create a Public Tribunal to investigate crimes in colonies and prisons. The Russian correctional system has become closed to civilian control, which is why human rights activists explain the emergence of the Public Tribunal. Such an institution is simply necessary in the current conditions of “overt violence in pre-trial detention centers and prisons,” the NGO said in a joint statement. Among the signatories are the leader of the movement “For Human Rights” Lev Ponomarev, human rights activist Elena Bonner, and director of the Sakharov Museum and Center Yuri Samodurov. Something unimaginable is clearly happening with prisons in pre-election Russia - information about protests in colonies, including for minors, is constantly coming. The story with the “Crosses” alone quite excited the public. The official version of the authorities is conspiracies, the influence of criminal authorities, etc., in general - criminals, what can we take from them?