"It will never be normal"

On International Day, in support of the victims of the torture of the Mediazon, publishes the stories of the seven clients of the “torture prevention” from Orenburg and Nizhny Novgorod and their portraits, shot by the photographer Mikhail Solunin.

Vyacheslav Sadovsky, 26 years old

August 25-26, 2008, Dzerzhinsky Department of Internal Affairs of Orenburg

Age : 18-year-old Sadovsky, along with his two friends, Anton Ferapontov and Maxim Nimatov, was detained in the courtyard of the house. The police department from young people demanded that they have allegedly robbed a grocery stall and scored a man to death.

Torture : “We were raised to the third floor. Two took me, brought me into the office, there are five more. They put a chair against the wall, they told me: "We know what you did from the 22nd to the 23rd." I said, I don’t know what you are talking about at all. The dialogue lasted twenty seconds. They threw me on the floor, began to turn my arms and legs, kicked from all sides. Then they brought a gas mask. One sat on my back, the other, non -Russian, sat in front of me. The gas mask was put on, leaned against Linoleum, and he began to jump on his back, squeezed oxygen. The air comes out, [the gas mask emerges] such a sound, he says: "Everything, he locked up, normally."

I thought I would pretend, as if I had lost consciousness, but I feel that I could not hold it - I was jerking off. They shot a gas mask, asked if you want to say something. One said: "Now you can’t tell anything, I will burn your eyes with a cigarette." And he burned the eyelid, poked a bull. I open my eyes, again the gas mask dresses, begin to beat. I hear the guys shout mine too in neighboring offices.

Anton Ferapontov - him like a game that is shot, hung on a stick. His hands and legs are interconnected, between them a stick, they wear him from the office to the office. The tables made up, they hung him there, put on a gas mask and beat him.

At four hours, some other cops came, torture seemed to stop, but I did not climb out of the gas mask. They broke the ribs. One in the morning came up: "If you can’t take a gun on yourself, I will throw you out the window." And in those intervals of the time when they mocked and tortured, you know, I really wanted to have such an opportunity to just jump out of the window or do something with them. Because it is indescribable. ”

Damage : everyone was diagnosed with hematomas, abrasions, joint dislocations, in one of the young people a concussion, Vyacheslav Sadovsky had a broken rib, and Anton Ferapontov had a nose.

The status of the case : young people were not charged. For illegal detention, the court awarded them 1,000 rubles of compensation. The initiation of criminal torture was refused 17 times, it was discovered only in 2014. Several employees were accused of negligence, the case was closed after the statute of limitations; Two police officers - Albert Akmanov and Vasily Zubikhin - are currently being judged for the use of violence - they continue to serve in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

About the police : “I hate them at all. You see, if I go to where they are sitting in shape, I can’t - I immediately start nervous, I begin to shake me. Dreams are still dreaming, this is probably for a lifetime: dreams how you are stirred up there. You wake up in sweat. When I tell someone, I’m not what I strain and remember, I’m just like that-I’ll look into memory, and all this happens before me. All the same, only as if views from above. This is forever, it is for life.

Even in court you sit, look at them, and such hatred - I am not a cruel person, and calm, always easily tolerated everything, and I see them, I begin to twitch an eyebrow. It will never be normal. ”

Sergey Ivanov, 33 years old

March 14, 2012, Orenburg

Torture : “I returned home with beer, it was already dark, the employees stopped, the documents asked. I was with a neighbor on the street. I say that I live nearby, pass - I will show. "Sit down in the car." I went to the Gazelle, and he says to the driver - turn off, go to the department. I ask for what reason? Well, he became furious something and began to beat.

He threw off his pea jacket and began - he would strike me, he will deliver it to another. I fell, he stomped on top of me. And then I turned off, came to my senses, I see that we were approaching the department. "Come out." And inside everything hurts, it’s bad to go. He went into this monkey, I can’t sit, got up, began to yell to call an ambulance. He shouted that I was dying - he really felt that he was getting dark in his eyes. About half an hour there was nothing, then the ambulance arrived. He went with me - Litvishko, who beaten. He with me to the operating room was holding on to the gurney: "Brother, save, forgive."

A reason : “He said that he was tired, from the shift, there was something hard day, we went to the call in the evening, and he had nervous stress. The clouding was in my head. "

The consequences : doctors found a fracture of ribs, internal bleeding and rupture of the spleen in Ivanov. It had to be removed.

The status of the case : police officers tried to intimidate Ivanov and his family so that they refuse complaints. The neighbor, who was beaten with Sergey, nevertheless abandoned his testimonies, but the woman-knowledge-who was in the same car told about the beating. In 2013, for the excess of official powers using the violence of the policeman Oleg Litvyshko, he was convicted of three years in prison. He was released at parole. The Orenburg Regional Court awarded Ivanov compensation in the amount of 300 thousand rubles.

About the police : “Well, all different people. This is how, others have normal there. You can’t say for everyone. ”

Now : “Yes, it's hard. In general, it’s hard to talk about it. He begins to shake right away, as you start to remember all this. Only all this went a little, and you recalled again. ”

Sergey Lyapin, 52 years old

April 25, 2008, the village of Ilyinogorskskoye Nizhny Novgorod Region

Age : Lyapina was detained in the evening when he collected an ownerless scrap metal. The police suspected him of thefts of garages, which the inhabitants of the district complained about, and under torture demanded to find themselves guilty.

Torture : “We go into the office, he shakes me handcuffs from behind, sits me on the floor. He takes out a belt, looks like a wrestling. Together tied his legs, over his shoulders throws his belts, pushes my hands and again here. And he begins to just pull at first, that is, my legs begin to reach for me, and my hands are turning up in the joints. He sits on my shoulders, starts pulling by the belt and shortens it. I say what you are doing, what you need. "Nothing is necessary." I say that it’s not very pleasant, you know. He says: "This is still Abwehr, now the Gestapo will come." What boasts?

Another one arrives, he has a green unit, when I was at the training camp, they used them there, he produces the current. He says: "Remove your old belt. Look at me." He takes out this neat and brand new box. "That's what a tool should be!"

They put me on a chair, prepare their machine, they connected the wires to it, they also put it on a chair. The bare wires are screwed to me by the little fingers, here there were traces, here the ulcers were later. The one that he brought, at first he twisted, was sitting on me - because when the current acts, the body begins to contract and involuntarily trying to straighten up. I cracked on the wall with my head several times. They dragged me away from the wall and let's twist. Then the first: "Let me try too." They changed, began to twist. He says: "Let's water it with water." I also thought that they studied normally in physics. The glass was poured, watered on the head, on the arms. And let's twist. I lost consciousness several times.

The investigator begins: "Tell me, how, how, where, what, when?". I am standing and silent. What to answer? She: "I will not pick him up: he is silent. Until he speaks, take him to you." Again under the hammers, I think.

She has a computer, here is a stack of business. She takes: was there such a number there and there? Well, it was. Did you take it? I took it. Prints. I printed five or six folders like that. I think: e-mine, now how Boeing will load me. Another thing is opening: was there and there? I'm silent. She is the opera who sits there: "He was silent for something, take him to him, finish it."

Consequences : a concussion of the brain, bruise of the neck, chest bruise, thermal burns of both brushes.

The status of the case : a criminal case against Lyapin, by which he stipulated himself under torture, was closed behind the reconciliation of the parties. Investigators ten times refused to initiate proceedings against the operatives who tried it. In 2014, the ECHR awarded Lyapin compensation in the amount of 45 thousand euros. Only after this decision and appeal of human rights activists to the Supreme Court, the case was still initiated, but it is investigated slowly. “The Dzerzhinsky investigative department is still trying to sabotage this case,” says Albert Kuznetsov, an employee of the KPPP.

Now : “Constantly all this is experienced, the last time it is very specifically, when the confrontation was made in the place where everything happened. After that time I have never been there. Three weeks ago. "

About the police : “There are some people - but I do not consider them very smart - who say there:“ Ments goats ”. I do not think that this is right: anyway, you want it, you don’t want, something happens-you go to them. I still hope that there is a large percentage of normal.

One of the operas said to me there: "Now a person will come, oh, you all, beware, his garage has been robbed for a hundred and extra thousand thousand." He calls him: "Come, we caught here alone, is written at everything." And he says: "This is the one that you tortured? You went." And he didn’t come anywhere. And he is the head of the police department in another village. Just a person is not an idiot. "

Alexey Sukhov, 35 years old

August 29, 2011, the village of Prigorodny Orenburg Region

Torture : “He went home, did not reach home. In the afternoon, at twelve hours. Two attacked two in a civilian, tumbled down and let's hammer and kick. The grass was placed in the pocket. I began to watch what was there, they immediately broke me. Then they took them to the cemetery, they said, we’ll dig you now. From the cemetery to the department, they then took it. There he asked me to call an ambulance, she was not called. They broke my head well. ”

Age : Konopra was grew nearby on an abandoned farm. As the neighbor of the Sukhov family, who spoke in court, said in this place, the police constantly arranged ambushes. The woman saw how they beat Alexei, and how one of the employees went to pick up hemp - it is likely to write herbs in the detainee's pockets.

The consequences : closed craniocerebral injury, a concussion of the brain, soft tissue hematomas, bruises in the eye area, subocyuquuquantal hemorrhage in the left eye.

The status of the case : Sukhov was accused of storing narcotic substances, later the case was closed for the lack of an event of a crime. In the initiation of a criminal case against employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, they repeatedly refused, it was brought up only in 2014. As a result, police officers Alexei Reshetilov and Konstantin Sinyagin were sentenced to 3.5 years in a colony.

Now : Alexei has greatly damaged eyes, constant headaches, arrhythmia; He suffers from sharp pressure drops.

Oleg Elchaninov, 48 years old

December 2, 2006, Leninsky District Department of Internal Affairs of Orenburg

A reason : Elchaninov and his one -legged friend Motkov were accused of allegedly raped a girl with whom they drank alcohol. In the police department, Yelchaninov was forced to write a confession.

Torture : “They put me in a chair with a high back, changed my handcuffs back, so that my hands were behind the back of the chair. [Policeman] Mikhailenko stood with his foot on the handcuffs so that I would not fall from the strokes inflicted. They pulled the bat from the safe, began to strike at closed parts of the body. With quiet such tedious blows, they began to fill the hematoma on the head, from which there was a tumor and bruises under the hair. And they carried any heresy tediously-they were borrowed all, if only I would confess and repent of anything.

Belly-billed, put on a bag on their heads, overlapping their breath, struck the chest, worked out their combat techniques with their feet and arms that they received after Chechnya, these tricks. Because in the conversation they said aloud - now if you do not confess, we will make you a "Chechen tail." Then they already told me what it is, but you know, let them explain themselves.

When they removed the package from the head, [the employee] Makarov took a wide mouth, folded in half and, striking on the head, pulled the skin from the skull. Blows with an overlap, very severe pain. And at one point, I realized that they were hitting the hairline so that there was no abrasion on the face, and I raised my head under the beat of the bits - and I got into the eyebrow. The eyebrow was cut, I was in a white shirt, it was flooded with blood. They say: "Look, he sprouted his face." Makarov says: it's okay, now we will make him a fracture of his nose, and then let's say that he fell from the stairs. I was raised from a chair, he threw one hand between the shoulder blades, took his head behind his head and hit me on the table with a strong blow. But I managed to turn my head, and the blow came not with my nose, but an eyebrow again. The second eyebrow blazed. The table scattered because before that they beat someone there, and the table was already flimsy.

I fell to the floor, began to kick-laing, began to try to take off my jeans in order to make the Chechen tail, as I understand it. But I had a poleworm belt, and when I was completely protruding my stomach, they could not open it quickly. I shouted, of course. There was a night, the head of the department ran: "Stop it! The material is already there. Enough." I remember these words well. And they stopped. "

The consequences : bruised wounds of eyebrows, bruises on the chest, right shoulder, right cheek, right and left hips, back, right buttock, around both eyes, abrasion of the left oversized arc, abrasion of the left century.

The status of the case : Yelchaninov believes that the girl slandered friends, and this was a conspiracy to take possession of the apartment - after the detention he was asked to sign a power of attorney to re -register real estate. He claims that no examinations were carried out in the case, and the sentence was based exclusively on the words of the imaginary victim. The court sentenced him and Motkov to seven years in prison.

Since 2006, Yelchaninov has not been interviewed on the fact of applying violence to him and recorded by doctors and a bodily harm. Refusals to initiate criminal proceedings are constantly being made. In 2014, the ECHR communicated his complaint about torture.

Now : Oleg Yelchaninov, who before the arrest was a single father, is deprived of parental rights; His son in an orphanage, they are not allowed to give dates and Oleg’s letters are not transmitted to his son. Elchaninov is still under administrative supervision, who is trying to challenge in court.

About the police : “They come, they check me. Already after communicating, Europe complaints, when Russia took the obligation to ensure security, I was wound up the "plum" by police officers on the street. They took it simply in a boorish way-"A! This is the one that wrote to Strasbourg, ha ha, supervisory face"-and "plum" spun ".

Oleg Krayushkin, 38 years old

September 20, 2012, Pavlovsky police department of Nizhny Novgorod

A reason : “I had a sawmill, I was engaged in forest. Police officers came to me, they detained me, took me to the department and stated that my sawmill was stolen. I bought it Baushnoye - and they say that I stole it. ”

Torture : “And first through intimidation - that you need to confess to theft of sawmills. It was all day, in the evening I was taken to another department, and the interrogation with addiction has already begun. It took place within three hours, I was handcuffed and beaten with rubber batons, mainly on the legs, on the feet especially on the heels. Together they held me, the third struck.

There were also threats of rape, a lot of things in three hours. Then I was determined in the investigative insulator, there was an inspection of my bodily harm, the employees saw my traces of bodily harm on the legs. They made a report and called me an ambulance. ”

The status of the case : a criminal case against Krayushkin, who spent two months under house arrest, was closed - the real abductors of the sawmills were detained and condemned. Nevertheless, when Oleg filed a lawsuit with compensation for illegal persecution, the case began to be initiated again, then to close, preventing his rehabilitation. The criminal case against those who struck Krayushkin on the heels of the police was instituted only in 2013, since then the investigation has already been suspended seven times, no one has been held accountable.

About the police : “The attitude to the police as a whole has changed very well. Now I look at them in a different way, because the truth is not to find. Such a situation, a vicious circle. There are police officers, there is an investigative committee that is engaged in their crimes, but there is no truth. In general, I now understand that there are a lot of illegally convicted in our country. Because what I went through, at least half would admit a crime. ”

Now : “I sometimes meet with the very police officers. Then it is generally pounding inside me. But they somehow try to take their eyes off once again when they see me, they try to cross the road. ”

Alexander Dmitriev, 58 years old

March 8, 2011, police department No. 7 of the Sovetsky district of Nizhny Novgorod

Reason : Dmitriev worked as an installer. According to the police, instruments disappeared in the house where he worked. He was demanded to confess to the theft.

Torture : “I say that I don’t know any business. He was blown up: "I'll put you a mop now!" He began to insult, rude. He nodded his head, and one of them lifted me, brought me out the room, made a cut, I fell on the ass. Before that, the handcuffs put me on the back, and still the white stripes still remained. He tied my legs with a belt, took the rope, stuck between the belt and handcuffs. One lifts and presses, bends and presses. Then one beats me with his knees - on the head, over his chest, and the second came up, sat down, my head between his legs, sat on his shoulders and jumped several times. The pain is terrible. I think dick with you, boss, finish, I will sign everything. ”

Consequences : Breakfast and a fracture of two vertebrae.

The status of the case : Police Vadim Volkov and Alexander Sokolov were held liable, in 2014 the court found them guilty and sentenced them to five years in prison. However, in March 2015, the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court canceled this decision and sent the case to revise. Now it is again considered in court.

“I was asked in court, what punishment you want them? It doesn't matter to me, break their spine and let them go. It would be honest and fair. "

Now : “There were already five strokes. See, I'm still talking badly. I lay down on the hood, more or less became with my back. So sometimes enough, it hurts. Sometimes he will grab - a couple of days the pain is terrible. In the madhouse lay. I can leave the apartment, go to the store, but to be somewhere at a car factory or in Arzamas. Dressing in memory and that's it. ”

About the police : “Creatures, shy away from them. Recently, I’m going, staring at someone, turn around, two cops are standing. "Come on the documents." What is the matter? “Come on, they said,” with screams, with everything. We looked. "What are you going, you are stuck?" I am a disabled person of the second group, I am staggering from my illness. "If a disabled person, do not go." They were creatures, and the creatures remained. We will never have order in this structure, never. ”