Human rights activists from Siberia who covered torture in colonies were sent to pre-trial detention center

In the Kemerovo region, the coordinator of the “Legal Siberia” project, Dmitry Kamynin, and another man were placed in a pre-trial detention center. The creator of Gulagu.net, Vladimir Osechkin, spoke about this on his Facebook.

reported “A very alarming situation. These guys ran a channel on YouTube and regularly published videos in which ex-prisoners of various institutions of the GUFSIN in the Kemerovo region talked about torture, “press huts,” Kamynin even [managed] to find ex-press workers who confessed on camera to torture and torture . Dima [did] very important and dangerous work, and so they were ‘closed’,” writes Osechkin.

Presumably, Kamynin is charged with drugs (Article 228 of the Criminal Code), and another person is charged with extortion (Article 163 of the Criminal Code).

Osechkin also published a letter from Kamynin to his mother, in which he announced a hunger strike that he had been on for almost a month, and threats to send him to the “press hut.” “They are mocking me morally,” Kamynin reports.

June 10, 2023 The text of the news has been changed. The person mentioned in the news asked to delete his story for security reasons. As a human rights project, we cannot ignore such requests, so we are deleting the text of the news. - “Legal Siberia” is a human rights project that provides assistance to prisoners. Its authors are hunger strikes, as well as beatings, torture and other cases of ill-treatment in places of detention. illuminated