Russian Ebola, 2015: 197 people

The Russian Ebola project created for monitoring deaths in the police department, pre-trial detention center and IVS sums up the results of the first year of its work: in 2015 of Russia, 197 detainees died.

In 2015, 197 people died in the police, investigative insulators and temporary maintenance insulators and temporary maintenance insulators.

109 people died in the police, 42 in IVS, 31 in the pre -trial detention center, and ten more detainees died in official police cars. One at a time - in the premises of the investigative department, in the UFKN building, a detachment, traffic police and on an outbound investigative experiment.

Among the dead, six people came to the police station themselves, voluntarily; The rest were detained.

The most common official cause of the death of the detainees in 2015 was a “sudden deterioration in well -being” - 104 people; Typically, reports of such cases spoke of “unclear circumstances” or cardiac arrest: heart attack, thrombach.

The second place in 2015 is occupied by suicide - 62 people. Among the other causes of death, epilepsy was mentioned-five people, tuberculosis-three people, two died of alcohol delirium (white fever), one was poisoned by an unknown substance, ten people died from injuries, which, according to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, were received before entering the department. Five people suffocated in a fire, one killed cellmates. Four people died at the hands of the police.

Among the deceased detainees, 45 people were detected intoxicated, and in four - narcotic.

Police officers provided first aid 88 times. Ambulance went to all cases of death in the police department, and a pre -trial detention center.

Among the dead were 183 men and 14 women.

Most often, 31 people died on Saturday and Tuesday, 29 on Friday, on Monday and Wednesday of 28 people, on Thursday - 26 people, and 24 dead on Sunday.

In January, 19 people died, in February - 17, in March - 21, in April - 18, in May - 29, in June - 20, in July - 15, in August - 16, in September - 9, in October - 12, in December - 6 people. The data for the last month of the year is presented as of 13:00 Moscow time on December 31; Upon receipt of new messages about mortal cases, the report will be adjusted.

Most often, the detainees in 2015 died in the Central (50 people) Volga (40), North-West (23), Ural and Siberian (22), Far Eastern (17), South (14), North Caucasian (eight) and Crimean (one) federal districts.

The Russian Ebola emphasizes several cases of the death of Russians in the police, pre -trial detention center and IVS.

In January in Belgorod, police officers beat the detainee. The man died two days later in the hospital. The investigation department then assigned the audit, and later opened a criminal case. In October, police officers were convicted : Alexander Goptarev, the court sentenced to nine years a maximum security colony, Andrei Volkovo - to three years of general regime. From the materials of the case announced in court, the details of the incident became known: Goptarev put on the detained handcuffs and hit his head against the wall, from this the man fell to the floor. Then Volikov and Goptarev began to beat him with his arms and legs, put it on the toilet, where there were no surveillance cameras, and they continued to beat with their feet there. After that, the victim was pulled into the corridor and left to lie there on the floor. After some time, Goptarev, passing by, deliberately stepped on his feet and arms. A few hours later, the detainee was placed in the camera, and only in the morning he was taken by an ambulance.

In July, in the district center of the Leningrad Region, the young man was invited to the local ATS as a witness, but during the conversation he admitted to complicity in the murder and, having seized the moment when the police left him in the office of one, emitted from the window. Passers -by found him still alive and called an ambulance; In less than an hour, a man died in intensive care. The criminal case on the fact of the death of the witness was never instituted. The lawyer of the international human rights group "Agora" Vitaly Cherkasov appealed the refusal to initiate the case.

In Ulyanovsk, during a fire in a pre-trial detention center, four people were killed . The wiring caught fire on the evening of August 29 in Kartsere, where repair work was carried out; As the prosecutor’s office later established - by the forces of the prisoners themselves. According to the representative of the Federal Penitentiary Service, three convicts were killed and one under investigation. The Investigative Committee in connection with the incident in the pre -trial detention center opened a criminal case of negligence (Article 293 of the Criminal Code).

In September, in Dubna near Moscow, the ex-bapwish of one of the first Soviet rock groups “Firebird” Sergey Pestov died . According to his acquaintances and eyewitnesses to the detention, the cause of the death of the musician was injuries inflicted by police officers who were looking for drugs at the rehearsal base equipped in Pestov’s garage. The drummer died in the hospital, without regaining consciousness. Later, the prosecutor’s office recognized his detention as legal, and the Investigative Committee accused the deceased of the content of the drug subment. The criminal case on the fact of his death was never instituted.

On October 31, in Vladikavkaz, a local resident Vladimir Tskaev was detained on suspicion of an attack on OMON employee. On the morning of November 1, he died in the hospital. The police stated that the man himself fought his head on the floor, but the relatives of the deceased, without believing this version, went out into the street with a spontaneous protest. After some time, the operatives, who are suspected of beating Tskaev, were arrested ; The head of the city threat was arrested , and the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of North Ossetiawas removed from his post. Later, a neighbor of the deceased admitted in the attack on an employee of OMON.

In mid-November, after the celebration of the day of the internal affairs officer in the 26th police department in St. Petersburg, the drunken operative and Elthemev in his office shot the detainee from the table weapons. The next day, the court sent Artemyev to a pre -trial detention center for two months; He became a defendant in the criminal case under Part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code (murder).

“Russian Ebola” is a project of journalist Maria Berezina, dedicated to the monitoring of deaths in places of forced content: pre -trial detention center, IVS, police and medical workers. In the statistics of the project, prisoners are not taken into account, deprived of freedom by the court verdict - the Russian Ebola records mortality only among the detainees and administratively arrested, in the place of each of which any adult resident of Russia can be at any time.

The name of the project was borrowed from the article of the same name by Oleg Kashin. The first report of the Russian Ebola appeared on the Mediazone on April 1, 2015.

Source: "Russian Ebola . "