Putin instructed the Prosecutor General to check the FSIN

President Vladimir Putin instructed the Prosecutor General’s Office to verify compliance by the Federal Service for the Penitentiary of Legislation on Public Control of the Provision of Human Rights in places of forced content. The text of the order is published on the Kremlin website.

According to the document, we are talking about compliance with the norms governing the interaction of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Federal Penitentiary Service with members of public supervisory commissions. The Prosecutor General’s Office must finish the audit and report on its results by September 1. The prosecutor Yuri Chaika was appointed responsible for execution.

On December 8, at a meeting with members of the Human Rights Council, Putin promised to figure out the issue of forming the composition of public observation commissions. Igor Kalyapin, a member of the HRC, told Putin about the obstacles that human rights activists have to deal with the implementation of public control in places of imprisonment.

In particular, according to Kalyapin, during a trip to IK-7 in Segezh, the HRC members were not allowed to record conversations with the prisoners, and also did not allow them to familiarize themselves with the documents.

The President promised to instruct the prosecutor’s office to check the orders of the FSIN regarding the visiting to human rights activists of the correctional colonies. "Despite the fact that we generally have many problems in the law enforcement, but this order, in accordance with the law, can be fulfilled only by the prosecutor's office. I will do so, I will instruct me to carry out such a job," Putin said

On October 22, lists of elected public observation commissions in 42 regions were published on the website of the Public Chamber. There were no in the lists those who actively worked and helped prisoners.