The police did not initiate a case against the human rights activist because of the publication about the death of a prisoner

The police did not initiate a fake news case (part 9 of article 13.15 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) against human rights activist Pavel Glushchenko, who told about the death of a prisoner after a riot in the Angarsk colony. about this He wrote on his Facebook page.

They did not file a case due to the lack of corpus delicti. to the police in June Glushchenko was summoned , he was charged with disseminating deliberately false socially significant information under the guise of reliable. This happened after he posted on Facebook a message about the death of a prisoner in a correctional colony, while the Federal Penitentiary Service denied his death. Subsequently, the police found out that the supposedly declared relatives of the deceased managed to collect money for the "funeral" from the relatives of other convicts, and the person with the name of the allegedly deceased does not actually exist.

The title and text of the news has been changed. Previously, it was erroneously stated that the court refused to initiate a case, while the police did not initiate a case.

• into IK-15 in Angarsk, Irkutsk Region, On April 10, special forces of the Federal Penitentiary Service were brought after the prisoners rebelled against the administration of the colony, setting fire to the working premises and the duty unit. The reason for the riot was a conflict between a colony employee and one of the prisoners (according to other sources, the beating of a prisoner).