What are they starving in Salavat

According to human rights activists, more than six hundred prisoners refused to eat food in the dining room of the colony in protest against the arbitrariness of the administration.

“Over the next days, about the same prisoners have joined the previously starving trees,” says Bashkir human rights activist, civil activist Vladislav Yusupov .

The direct cause of indignation in the colony was the death of the prisoner Sergei Lasko. According to the official version, Lasko died of a heartfelt attack. The human rights activists, referring to the stories of the prisoners interviewed by them, report that Sergey Lasko and several more convicts were brutally beaten by the colony by the colony for repeatedly filed complaints about violations of their rights.

“When we came to the penalty area, these people were brought to us,” said Stanislav Urmantsev , a member of the public supervisory commission, who visited the colony a few days after the death of Sergei Lasko and achieved a meeting with beaten prisoners. - Of these, three could not sit. They showed beatings - bruises from the coccyx to the middle of the ICR, dissected from the blows of the buttock. They used special equipment on July 11, and we were there in nine days.

In protest against beatings, several prisoners contained in single chambers inflicted numerous cuts for themselves.

“The cameras were flooded with blood,” says Stanislav Urmantsev. - Five people lay on the beds - their hands were bandaged ...

The leadership of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Republic of Bashkortostan insists on the full legality of all its actions.

“Messages of people who call themselves human rights activists that the death of Sergei Lasko came as a result of beatings, is not true,” says Gleb Polinovsky, official representative of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Bashkiria. - Special means were really applied to the convict - a rubber stick. The convicted person attacked an employee during search events, began to prevent him. I had to apply a rubber stick, deliver several strokes. I must say right away that the forensic medical examination did not regard these blows even as easy harm to health ...

Protest shares organized by prisoners, the Federal Penitentiary Service regards the UFSIN as blackmail, aimed at achieving an unlawful, according to the Federal Penitentiary Service, soften the regime of content.

In addition, the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Federal Penitentiary Service emphasized that although the prisoners refused to eat food in the dining room of the colony, they have the opportunity to buy provisions in the stall and use grocery transmissions received from their will. The figure - 600 starving - the leadership of the correctional institution also refutes, saying that it has only 125 statements on the refusal of eating.

In an investigation of the causes of the death of a prisoner Sergei Lasko, an attempt to suicide by his cellmates and a massive refusal of prisoners from eating is engaged in the management of the Investigative Committee for Bashkiria.

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  Arthur Asafiev

  Foreign Correspondent in the Republic of Bashkortostan. He has been cooperating with Radio Liberty since 1998.
  
  Born in 1966 in Ufa. In 1991 he graduated from the History Faculty of Bashkir State University. He has been engaged in journalism since 1990. He worked in independent print publications of Bashkiria, collaborated with the New Gazeta and the publication of the New Time/The New Times. Laureate of the journalistic contest "Contrary to" named after Larisa Yudina in 1999.
  
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