The ex-head of IK-9 Ivan Savelyev was detained in Karelia

In Karelia in the case of beating the prisoner, the former head of the correctional colony No. 9 Ivan Savelyev was detained. This is written by RIA Novosti with reference to the lawyer Savelyev Mikhail Shogin.

Saveliev is charged with excess of official powers. A criminal case was opened in October 2019 after the publication of a video, which captures the persons of beating a prisoner. The ex-head of the colony was detained in Medvezhyegorsk, where he leads a prison hospital.

The "capital on the One" reports that his former deputy Ivan Kovalev was detained with Savelyev.

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The Mediazona and the Current Time TV channel published a text about torture in colony No. 9 of Petrozavodsk. After that, the head of the colony, Ivan Saveliev, sued journalists. In relation to the correspondent of Alla Konstantinova and convicted Ruben Poghosyan, who told the journalist about torture, Savelyev tried to institute criminal proceedings, but SK refused to do this. In December, the SK resumed the investigation of the case of slander against the journalist who wrote about torture in the colony.

Saveliev was removed from office after a video appeared on the Internet, on which the prisoner Savelyev and his deputy Ivan Kovalev was beaten by journalists and former prisoners interviewed by the Mediazone.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under the article on exceeding official powers. Who is the suspect in the case is unknown. The prosecutor's office considered that colony No. 9 in Petrozavodsk "lawfully applied" force to the convicted Evgeny Petrov, who declared torture in the institution.

Viktor Molodozhnikov, who defends several convicts in colony No. 9, asked him to provide him and his family with state protection after another car rammed his car.