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Ildar Dadin reported on torture in the colony
Ildar Dadin, convicted on charges of “repeated violations of the rules for holding public events,” released information that he was subjected to severe torture in the colony. His letter, recorded the day before by lawyer Alexei Liptser, November 1, Meduza. The letter addressed to Dadin’s wife Anastasia Zotova states that immediately upon arrival at the colony, two blades were planted on him, which became the reason for his first placement in a punishment cell. The next day, the head of the colony, Sergei Kossiev, came to him with three employees, and they all began beating Dadin. “In total, they beat us four times that day, 10-12 people at a time, they kicked us. After the third beating, they lowered their head into the toilet right in the punishment cell,” the letter says.
published by the Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Karelia confirmed that force was used against Dadin, Novaya Gazeta reported on this. The reason, according to the publication’s interlocutor, was that “Dadin rudely refused to leave the cell, take a position for a search, and began to grab the officers’ uniform with his hands.”
writes Dadin also told the lawyer about how he was hung up by handcuffs, with his hands twisted behind his back (similar to Dadin’s torture at the Moscow Khamovniki police station after one of his arrests). According to him, the head of the colony threatened that if Dadin complained, he would be “killed and buried behind the fence.”
subjected It became known earlier that Dadin was placed in a punishment cell several times after arriving in the colony, and then. According to his wife Anastasia Zotova, one of the reasons was that he addressed the colony staff on a first-name basis.
transferred to strict regime Lawyer Alexey Liptser, in a conversation with, confirmed that he wrote down the text of the letter from Dadin’s words. According to Liptser, Dadin appears "depressed and scared." The convict told the lawyer that other prisoners were also subjected to similar torture in the colony, in particular those imprisoned in high security conditions. All of them, according to Dadin, are afraid to report this. Liptser said that he and Dadin communicated in writing.
OVD-InfoAccording to the lawyer, he managed to get to his client without obstacles, but they refuse to let Dadin’s relatives in. (Anastasia Zotova previously reported that she was unable to meet her husband. The letters were also not passed on to Dadin.)
Anastasia Zotova told Novaya Gazeta that she turned to Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova. She promised to send a republican commissioner to the colony and write an appeal to the FSIN. Earlier, Moskalkova responded to Dadin’s sentence.