Human rights activists want to visit the colony without the permission of the FSIN

The chairman of the Human Rights Council (HRC) under the President of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Fedotov, said that human rights activists will not be able to inform Vladimir Putin about the situation of human rights in the country if the Federal Penitentiary Service (the Federal Penitentiary Service) will continue to refuse the Council members to visit the colonies. Fedotov proposed amendments to the legislation in order to allow members of the HRC to visit places of imprisonment without the permission of the FSIN. The head of the council intends to ask the State Duma to change the law on public control.

Earlier, the HRC members were not able to visit the colony in Karelia during a visiting meeting in the region in early February, Interfax reports. In particular, human rights activists were denied access to the colony, which contained opposition activist Ildar Dadin. He complained about torture and threats by murder from the colony officers. The FSIN explained the refusal to visit a correctional institution by the fact that under the law on public control, members of the HRC do not have such a right.

At the end of last year, Ildar Dadin announced systematic torture in the correctional colony No. 7 in the city of Segezha in Karelia. The Investigative Committee did not find violations in the institution, and Dadina was transferred to the colony in Altai. In early February, it became known that another prisoner who told about torture in the same colony had opened a criminal case of false denunciation.