The lawyer who published the video of torture in the Yaroslavl colony left Russia due to threats

Lawyer Irina Biryukova, who handed over to Novaya Gazeta a video of torture in Yaroslavl correctional colony No. 1, left Russia because of threats against her. this on Facebook . announced The Human Rights Foundation “Public Verdict”

Biryukova also sent an application to the chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, about providing her and her family with state protection.

“From my own sources in PKU IK-1 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Yaroslavl Region, I became aware that a number of employees who were present at the recording expressed threats of revenge against me,” Novaya Gazeta quotes the lawyer’s . statement

• On July 20, Novaya Gazeta published a video recording of the torture of prisoner Yevgeny Makarov in Yaroslavl Colony No. 1. The footage, filmed on a video recorder in June 2017, was handed over to the newspaper by Irina Biryukova, a lawyer for the Public Verdict Foundation.
• After the video was published, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on abuse of power with the use of violence (Article 286 of the Criminal Code). 17 employees of the colony were suspended from work. On July 23, the Investigative Committee announced that six of them had been detained.