Ildar Dadin was found in the Altai colony

Convicted oppositionist Ildar Dadin is in penal colony No. 5 in the Altai Territory, his wife Anastasia Zotova told Mediazona after a telephone conversation with her husband.

The husband told Zotova that he was healthy.

Zotova published an audio recording of the conversation on the “Territory of Torture” website. Dadin noted that in IK-7 “they stopped beating people directly, and they also removed this music “Lube”. As for the rest, it’s either the same or worse.”

Dadin was transferred from Segezha IK-7 in early December after he reported torture and beatings in the colony. For 37 days, the relatives did not know where the oppositionist was sent; as it turned out from a conversation with Zotova, he spent almost the entire December in transit in Tyumen.

IK-5 is located in Rubtsovsk, it is colony with a population limit of 1955 people.. a general regime

Earlier on January 8, Deputy Head of the Federal Penitentiary Service Valery Maksimenko told Moskovsky Komsomolets that Dadin arrived at the new colony after being transferred and promised that at 13:00 Moscow time he would be allowed to call his relatives. At the same time, the region where the convicted person is located was not specified.

"All is well with him. They will let him write a letter, but it will take several days. Therefore, the decision was made to let him call. He himself will tell you where he came, how he was, what happened to him and where,” said the deputy head of the FSIN. Dadin called his wife at about 14:00 Moscow time.

Back on January 4, Maksimenko promised that Dadin’s whereabouts would be revealed within two days. Before this, information appeared that the oppositionist was sent to the Altai Territory.

Ildar Dadin is the first person in Russia convicted under Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code (repeated violation of the established procedure for organizing or holding an assembly, rally, demonstration); he was sentenced to two and a half years in prison.

On November 1, Meduza published a letter from Dadin, in which he reported torture and beatings in IK-7 in the Karelian city of Segezha. Later, other prisoners in the same colony confirmed Dadin’s words; the correctional facility was visited by members of the Presidential Human Rights Council, who compiled a report on the situation of prisoners in IK-7.

He was transferred soon after Dadin’s cellmate, with whom he had a conflict, wrote a statement to the police.