Suspects of extortion in the "Crosses" were charged

The Investigative Committee on St. Petersburg charged three suspects in the case of extortion in the investigative insulator of the Crosses, according to the department’s website on October 3.

The investigation believes that in July 2019, three prisoners demanded 20 thousand rubles from the cellmate. He could not find the money, the accused beat him, and then called the victim's relatives and demanded money from them. Relatives transferred 3 thousand rubles to a bank card of a friend of one of the accused.

"The defendants were not at presented to the charges at present. The investigation has sufficient evidence testifying to the involvement of the accused in the crime," the SK statement said.

In August, the Gulagu.net project reported to the torture in the isolator. According to human rights defenders, some prisoners were placed in a press, where they were beaten by other prisoners. Two employees of the "Crosses" were dismissed, another 20 were punished. After that, the case of extortion against three prisoners was opened. There is no information about the initiation of a criminal case of torture.

Photos and videos of beating a prisoner in the UK was called a fake. Human rights activists reported new episodes of violence in the "Crosses".

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