The Yaroslavl court did not see any violations in the fact that the beating of prisoners in IK-1 was not investigated

about this on Facebook . writes The Yaroslavl Regional Court agreed with the decision of the Zavolzhsky Court, which called lawful the refusal of the investigation to initiate a criminal case on the beating of prisoners in correctional colony No. 1. The Human Rights Foundation “Public Verdict”

On April 21, 2017, during the “search activities”, were severely beaten several prisoners in IK-1 in the Yaroslavl region . Among the victims were Yevgeny Makarov, Ivan Nepomnyashchikh, and Ruslan Vakhapov, a defendant in the Bolotnaya case. After the “search”, the beaten were put in a punishment cell without any medical assistance.

Irina Biryukova, a lawyer for Public Verdict, told OVD-Info that the organization would no longer appeal against the inaction of the investigative committee in Russian courts. “We already have a complaint with the ECHR on them [the case of Vakhapov, Makarov and Nepomniachtchi]. As soon as we get the full text of the decision [of the Yaroslavl Regional Court], we will send it to the ECHR to show that the authorities do not want to investigate this case,” the lawyer explained.

• On April 25, the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Yaroslavl Region published a message stating that the information about the beating of Ivan Nepomnyashchikh, a convict in the Bolotnaya case, in IK-1 “does not correspond to reality.”
• On April 28, the ECtHR assigned priority status to the case of Vakhapov, Makarov and Nepomnyashchikh, based on a complaint about beatings in IK-1.
• On June 9, the Investigative Committee for the first time refused to initiate a criminal case on the beating of prisoners in the Yaroslavl colony.
• You can read about the first colony in the Yaroslavl region, searches and riots in a large OVD-Info report.