"While he was dying, they looked at it, and when he died, they ran up"
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"While he was dying, they looked at it, and when he died, they ran up"
Former prisoners - about torture and lack of medical care in the Vladimir colony, where Alexei Navalny was transferred
Politician Alexei Navalny, serving an imprisonment in the Vladimir region, has been holding a hunger strike since the end of March, demanding that a doctor be allowed. Doctors evaluate his condition as critical. On April 19, the FSIN reported that prison doctors decided to transfer Navalny to a hospital at the Vladimir correctional colony No. 3.
This colony is popularly called "motor". Throughout Russia, the FSIN employees scare the intractable prisoners in the institutions of the Vladimir region, which are known for their monstrous conditions. "Motorka" among them is considered the most terrible. Prisoners from other Vladimir colonies are often transferred there - as a punishment for refusing to cooperate with the prison administration. Those who manage to go out talk about beatings, current torture and rape.
“Important stories” are published by monologues of three prisoners who served a sentence in correctional institutions of the Vladimir region in different years and sooner or later found themselves in Motorka.
"They can do anything with you"
Dmitry Novikov, serving a sentence in the penal colony No. 3 of the Vladimir Region in 2016-2019
I was serving a term in Kazan and the Tyumen region - in 2010 I was convicted of attacks on anti -fascists. Then I was connected with the guys, in the attack on which we were accused, they even contacted the prosecutor’s office, wrote that their employees of the “E” center forced to write complaints against us. In 2011, I was also accused of the fact that I allegedly created an extremist community: they came up with the name “Kazan Division”, and found the accomplices. The FSB officers tried to put pressure on me in the colony through thieves and the administration, offered to memorize the text and record the video that I started with everything - I refused. And literally a couple of weeks later, without explanation, they told me: “Get ready, tomorrow you have a stage in the morning.” The convoy said that I was being taken to Vladimir.
When I was already taken in the stage, I found out that it was bad - “red” control, do not wait for anything good. I did not know where they were taking me specifically, but everyone said that God forbid to get to Motorka. This is all, this is the end.
At first I was brought to the Vladimir SIZO-1, from where they should have been distributed to the camp. There were then “press khats” ( cameras where employees of correctional institutions and “pressers” from among the convicts are mocking the prisoners in order to persuade them to refuse to testify or sign the necessary confessions. - Approx. Ed. ) In the basement. In one of them I was immediately beaten, tied and threw me under the bed. As I understand it, at that time their goal was not to knock me out of me, but simply to show that "you are not there." I stayed there, probably ten days. And from there I was sent to the “motor” ( one of the names of the Vladimir correctional colony No. 3. - Approx. Ed.) , To the hospital.
Arrival there looks normal: you are being started through a passage beard, the convoy tells you “be kind”, ask if there are complaints. Why is this done? Because the FSIN and the Camp administration of the convoy administration have various bosses, and all employees have DVRs. It’s just that there is no such thing that the recording will disappear on two registrars [of different departments] - it will already be suspicious.
In the stage rooms, almost all personal belongings and books were selected from me, they said “not supposed”, although I arrived from the same institution and my books checked in two or three places. Some medications, even if you have a certificate that they are registered, do not give you either-they are thrown away right with you.
Then you are led by some corridors for a long time. Through the administrative case in IK-3, you can get anywhere in the camp in general: there are all the corridors through, and they are duplicated, that is, if you orient yourself, you can go through the entire colony with these labyrinths and do not appear on any chambers at all. For example, you can be beaten, clogged with something, and “activists” will drag you along these corridors where you need to.
They start a stage from the part of the sanctuary. And when you come out of this medical unit ... You know how in the royal army through the Slespects ( flexible thick rods or metal ramrods, which in the XVIII - XIX centuries used to punish in the armies of different countries. - Ed. ) Drive? So, there are really “activists” in the corridor ( prisoners participating in torture to receive privileges from the prison administration. - Approx. Ed. ): They scream on you, you are covered with obscenities, moving exclusively, at that moment it flies from all sides. You run into the room, there is an “offended” ( a prisoner who occupies the lower step in an unofficial prison hierarchy. - Approx. Ed. ) With bare genitals and yells: “Who to fuck?” ” At this moment, you don’t think anything, and you are put “on stretching” ( a pose in which you need to put your legs as wide as possible, rest your head and with your hands with your hands in the wall; after that they can beat on the legs so that the prisoner arranges them wider. - approx. Ed. ).
The administration is present at the same time: they indicate who to beat stronger, whom to beat on the head, and who do not touch, because he "helps them to disclose crimes." When we were transferred, there was one such guy.
While we were standing “on a stretch”, someone was filming how they beat us: they then show all these cable tricks in the colony-so as not to forget what is happening. After that, you are forced to take a panicle, you sweep - this is also removed on the camera - and you are asked questions: "Do you refuse thieves' traditions?" And others. Then you are forced to undress to the underpants, sometimes you take off their panties, starts in a capter where the operative sits, beat, kick, offer to write a confession if you still have some kind of crime. So you get into quarantine.
The quarantine everyday life pass this way: you will be woke up at six in the morning, and if, for example, you woke up at half past six, you can’t get out of bed for half an hour. If you get up, they will punish: in the walking courtyard above the quarantine there are a lot of “dead zones” for video surveillance cameras, lead to some corner, unite, explain that you are wrong.
After breakfast, you are brought to the business work: you sweep the parade ground, and exactly half an hour. Even if you call it in ten minutes, you will still be half an hour of revenge with pure asphalt - because it is supposed to revenge for half an hour. Then the stairs are washed, the duty unit, and only then you return to quarantine, sit down. You can sit like this: either you look down, your hands behind your back, or you teach a printout: it indicates the guidelines [colony], who does something, who has some kind of title, who has a reception time. You memorize all this by heart, at any moment they can ask you: you will not memorize - you will fall under the hand, and everyone else.
For two weeks I stayed on this quarantine. After that, I was sent to the hut of strict conditions for the content of the punishment - SUS. In Susa, during the day, representatives of all services come to you, these “activists” are also walking-to beat someone, to rest, just so that you do not relax. It also happened that they started to the gym and just beat, mocked, forced to squat and run under the threat of fucked. Naturally, you don’t think about any resistance there, because in such cases 10-15 people always help “activists” in such cases, and if necessary, they will call again. The fact that the genitals in the face are waved is already in the order of things. At some point, you already stop paying attention to this. But with me there was such that people were stuffed in the ass from a mop. They can do anything with you. In this mode, I had about a year.
Then, since I have an article for extremism, local Ephesians came to me. It was in 2017. I was congratulated on the fact that even though I was going home in August, I won’t go home: they said that while I was serving a deadline in Tyumen, I supposedly made two reposts on the Internet, in which they saw the propaganda of extremism. I was sent to sue "at the place of the crime", I did not achieve the truth there, they gave me two more and a half years and took me back to the "motor".
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I wrote that I can’t on the “motor”, that my life is in danger. He wrote in general everywhere - up to military intelligence. Naturally, this did not play any role, that is, I was even opened once ( made an attempt by suicide. - Approx. Ed. ). I was still transferred to Vladimir, although I said on the DVR [convoy] that I could not go there, they would kill me there. They brought me there and immediately sent me to the therapeutic department. There they immediately told me: “You are a suicide, we can just fill you up now calmly. Choose: either they take you forward from here, or after half an hour they come from the Office of their own security of the Federal Penitentiary Service, you sign that you have no complaints and no power has been applied to you. ” I understood that it was all real, and I signed everything.
As a result, I was closed to the PCT ( a single room of the chamber type, often - a camera with a more stringent regime of content. -Approx. Ed. ), Alone, and there, they periodically put all kinds of experiments over me. The drugs were injected: haloperidol ( antipsychotic drug, used for schizophrenia and manic disorders. -approx. Ed. ), Madame Depot (“ Moditen Depot” - a neuroleptic drug, used for schizophrenia. - approx. Ed. ).
A couple of times sent to the psychiatric department. How do they get there? If necessary, the next set is played out. Allegedly, the DVR is accidentally turned on and they say to you: “Convicted, you are behaving inadequately.” After that, the DVR is disconnected, and the duty officer writes a report, everyone is signed under it, and you are placed on the 21st day “for examination”.
When I lay there, [in the department] there seemed to be five wards of workers and two under the repair. You are stripped naked, tied to the bed. They can be untied, dragged into the ward with the repair, beat there. For what they beat, they don’t particularly explain, they say: “You yourself know everything.”
Naturally, no one complains there. Human rights activists sometimes come. Excuse me, about this PMC in the Vladimir region, I can’t say anything good at all. We are in Susa, we have no glasses in the windows, they are somehow filled with polyethylene, winter. A woman comes in in a fur coat to the heels and says: "What, you have warmth here."
Although, if they expect a serious commission, with which it is not possible to agree or which should dig something, they can not touch you for a week or two at all. They will forget about your existence. They will smear you with ointment. We were smeared with an ointment “Rescuer” - after each beating they gave us a whole tube to smear all bruises and abrasions.
I stayed there until December 2019. In August [2019], an ephezbashnik came to me again and offered the following option: “Listen, for you again your Tatar Ephesians asked you to be added a deadline. And here everything is corrected here, that is, we do not want to spoil their own statistics for the sake of. I have such an offer to you. You either now give an interview “Russia-24” that you have completely corrected here. We will print the text, learn everything, tell and go home. If you refuse, we will still have to listen to colleagues and close you. ” I decided it would be better to give this interview .
I was really released. Directly at the exit, while I was waiting for the receipt of things that are stored in the warehouse, the Center for Opportailing Extremism, CPE, came up to me. - Approx. Ed. ), Already Vladimirsky, and said: “I was asked to find out what plans you have, where you are gathering.” Of course, I was not eager to share plans with him and said: "You do not blame me, but let my plans stay with me."
"Every day they bring ointment - smear bruises"
Pavel Zotov, was kept under investigation in the pre-trial detention center of Vladimir in 2008, served a sentence in correctional colonies No. 3, No. 4, No. 6 of the Vladimir region in 2009–2021
I myself am from the city of Sobinka of the Vladimir region, when they detained, at first I sat with us, in the area. I had 105, 162 articles (murder, robbery). Then, when they transferred the case to the Vladimir Regional Court, they transferred to the pre-trial detention center 1 of Vladimir. There was nothing there then, there was no lawlessness from the administration. This is later, when I was in the camp, I learned from rumors that there were Press-Khats.
After the sentence, I was sent to IK-4, the city of Vyazniki [Vladimir region]. In December 2009, I was brought from there to IK-6, the village of Melekhovo. They beat, scolded, harder than in Vyazniki. Immediately “stretching” they put on, beat on the legs so that we all signed, abandoned thieves' traditions. They kept two weeks on quarantine, then transferred to the detachment.
In 2011, I heard about such a movement: you write a statement to each other, for example, by severe bodily harm, send to the court [of another region], he refuses after the statute of limitations. And they must still consider this and refuse it, you write a complaint about the refusal and you are taken out of this Melekhov on it. And we mutated such schemes to leave from there to rest a little. So they rode periodically, and the administration did not like it, because the information from the camp came out, what they were doing there, and these “activists” later met at large and beat them. The administration began to fight with us.
In 2013, I came to Melekhovo from such a trip, the operative starts me into the office and says: "You go there, circle something, write refusals from your statements." I refused, he led me to another office, and there are five masks in garbage clothes. At first I thought, we came from the department, and then it turned out, these were the convicts. They laid me, divided me naked, tied their arms, legs behind, held my head. The first procedure went: they started to beat on the heels with a baton, I endured this pain. Then they untied their legs, spread it and began to beat with a club under the eggs, I also suffered. Then they said: “We must piss him, the“ rooster ”is called, let him go out ***** (nafig).” I realized that it makes no sense, I signed all these refusals.
There was such a [activist] Kormiltsev, he dispersed with them. They beat him, he was angry with the colony. He apologized to me through another prisoner: he said that when these “masks” met me, he was there and did nothing, he only stood with the camera. He conveyed that he wanted to write complaints about them, that he has a video, shot right in the camp. I really did not believe it, but said that I did not mind. He wrote for two days, but someone burned him. He was immediately removed from there to the medical unit - this is like a second quarantine: if they close it, you will not be shouted to anyone.
After some time, we learned that he already had these videos at large, his wife gave them to some journalist, and they were laid out . They began to work on them, came from the FSB, began to say that this is a photomont. Social activists pulled themselves up, Vladimir, Moscow, initiated the matter. The trackers called us: they offered both long dates and calls. Then they began to threaten an article on the disorganization of the activities of the colony (Article 321 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), they said that we want to do some coup. In the end, we did not take risks, took the 51st article ( refused to testify against ourselves.-Approx. Ed. ), Asked that the defender was provided to us, but no one provided him.
In 2015, I went to the stage in Vologda, wrote complaints there, asked me to provide me with a safe place. But they refused me and returned me back. I thought: everything, they brought me to kill, so I was afraid to go there. And there, on the contrary, “Be kind, Pavel Valentinovich”. The investigator called everyone, but I am not. It turned out that someone wrote for me that I refused to testify. Then the investigator left, and everyone died out, they closed the case, decided that the video was editing. But it became normal to sit, there he became the boss [Sergey] Krokhalev, with him everything changed at all. If you want to play backgammon, call, go to the dates.
In 2019, Krokhalev left, and [Roman] Sahakyan arrived in his place. I did not find a common language with him. He began to charge everyone to work: patients, not sick, no matter. And I was given bed rest in a medical unit, but they did not like it. I told them: “I will not take your work for health reasons, I need to go through the examination, I have been sitting here for 13 years and never conducted this examination for me.” And in our medical unit there was nothing at all-if something was needed, then they took it to the “three” ( IK-3. - Approx. Ed. ). I had to go to this "three". I knew that there was a pipets, but I thought that nothing was left home.
In January 2021, after the holidays, I swing there. Only from the funnel we jump, there is an operative, two garbage and a doctor, they inspect under the camera, ask their pants to remove, raise the T-shirt. They lead further, in the room of the shmona they meet a manager and an employee, begin to insult. They lead further, start to the headquarters, just go-they immediately put them “for stretching”, there are seven or eight convicts in masks, they call you, “roosters” ( rape. - Approx. Ed. ) Scare. Then the operative calls, you are running to him, they put you up the steps, you are falling. The operative explains: “If you are staggering the mode, you understand that it will be with you, you know, we have recently arrived in our Armenian, you know what happened to him.” (Probably, we are talking about Mount Ovakimyan, who diedin the hospital at IK-3in 2018 - approx. Ed. ).
Then you come to this hospital, I was in therapy [therapeutic department] on the ground floor, and on the second surgery. And psychiatry is spread out: on the first and second floor there are two chambers. You go, there they yell the orderlies [from among the prisoners], they change into white coats, I first thought, free doctors. There again these “stretch marks”, they begin to beat on the legs, are felled. After beating, you are removed on a camera with a broom, your rejection of thieves' traditions is recorded and immediately take a receipt that no force was applied to you. Then you climb into the ward under the swearing. In the morning, the rise, everyone is commanded by the orderly and the cleaner, “offended”, if you have done something, the guys are still pulling up from the camp and begin to take measures.
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While you are there, every day they bring you an ointment of "body" - smear bruises. They know: before three weeks you will not go anywhere, and they smear every day. Doctors are there, they already go to another building to the hospital, there all the procedures are standard: they take blood, urine, fluorography was done to me. For a full examination, they have no equipment. I needed a consultation of an allergist, I talked with the head of the hospital, and he said that for this I need to be taken to the free hospital: "You will live to the release."
We lie in the ward, and here they bring right in poor condition [prisoner] Dima Dugin from the RIZO-3 "Kolchugino", he has cirrhosis of the liver. He suffocates, the orderlies come up to him, they say: “Yes, he will die, he will die tomorrow,” and there is no one. He suffered for a day, no one approached him, did nothing, then they brought him some kind of apparatus for ventilation of the lungs. He could neither walk nor get up, fought, fought there, we somehow helped him, these [orderlies] did not provide any support at all.
He lay for a day, the next day he got up, asked to call the daytime - he had not spoke before. He says to the day: "Give me holy water." Then he said that something was bad for him, he would puke, they brought him a basin. He sat down and as if he began to fall asleep. I understand that he is dying, calling the doctors, screaming, an orderly runs, dugs Dugin on this bed, the pulse touches and says: "****** (nightmare), drove away." I recorded time, went to the doctors; Twenty minutes later, doctors with garbage came only. We were taken out of this chamber.
And the next day, the kid, who, opposite this chamber, was sitting: "They deployed for a whole resuscitation there, they chose such devices." While Dima was dying, they just looked at it, and when he died, they ran there, purely to show on the camera that they did everything to him. These are the doctors there. Although women aged, sociable, would not say that they are finished. But you can’t say against the system - they have to go for it. I stayed there for a week and a half, there were no checks, there was no information to a minimum. Then they returned me to Melekhovo, and from there I freed myself in March.
"If you do not cooperate with management, you will be bad"
Anton Romashov, was kept under investigation in the pre-trial detention center of Vladimir in 2017, was serving a sentence in correctional colonies No. 3, No. 6 in 2017–2020
They closed me because my friends found drugs. I was still a minor. They bought drugs, came across and said that I treated them, that allegedly forced them to use. Although they have been consumed for two years. In December 2016, two opera came to me: “If you don’t sign everything you need now, you don’t admit guilt, then you go to the pre -trial detention center. There you will spit out your kidneys. ” I did not believe them, I sent them.
I was sewn Article 230 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (declining to use narcotic substances), they began to hang on me five episodes on it and 228.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (illegal production, storage, sales of narcotic substances), they said that I was almost a merchant. On the first episode, storage, I testified, according to the rest, which was not at all, said that I would be later. The lawyer and I also wrote a statement that if I give testimony without him, then, then, there were torture.
And on December 31, I was taken to the pre-trial detention center of Vladimir. At first he sat in one cell, in January 2017 I was transferred to another. Seven people met me there, they immediately tied it up, began to beat. They say: “What did not share with the trace? Do you understand where you got? " I denied everything, said that I was not involved, I will not take on myself. They tied me up all week, beat me, at the end of the week my pants were removed from me and the genitals were brought to me. They say: "If you do not give evidence now, we will just rape you." I agreed, did not want to be in a colony by a man with a reduced status. They untied me. I signed ready -made printed testimonies, a rejection of a lawyer, a legal representative, paper that I want to cooperate with the operational departments of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Vladimir region, to help them work.
After that, I was taken to the IVS ( temporary detention center. - Approx. Ed. ) For investigative actions. One of the pressers of the SIZO-1 told me: “You will return here anyway. If you do something wrong, you won’t sign it, you will come-we will rape you. ” I arrived at the IVS, the investigator says to me: “Do you understand what you got there? You know what to do. ” Again, the testimony is pushes for me, I sign them, because I have nowhere to go. I refuse a lawyer, I abandon my father as a legal representative. When I signed everything, they gave me a date with my parents at once, my grandmother and father came to me. I told them all this and I was taken away again in a pre -trial detention center.
When this murder ( in February 2017, the prisoner of the SIZO-1 in the cell killed Yuri Filippov’s “spokeswoman”. “Important stories” were toldherein detail.- Approx. Ed. ) It occurred in the investigative insulator, I began to complain everywhere. Because my episode was one, storage, I recognized it. And five episodes were presented to me. They started to come from the Federal Penitentiary Service with a check, they say to me: “If you write now that this [other episodes] were not there, you will go to sit in IK-6, Melekhovo, they will be mutilated there, they will make a disabled person and then rape.” I was scared and refused [from complaints] again.
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I was condemned, they gave me five years, although I told me at the trial that I was torture, and I told about the murder of the “spokesman”. The prosecutor said that they did the audit, they did not find anything, that I am deceiving the investigation in order to avoid punishment. I was supposed to be transferred to the colony to Melekhovo from the pre -trial detention center, they came to me when I began to complain in court, they told me to go without things to call a lawyer. I go out, I am loaded to the autozak and taken to IK-3 to Motorka. They land, there is some kind of buxes for waiting. Seven people in masks and without a mask Roman Sahakyan runs out ( many prisoners of Vladimir institutions complain about Sahakyan, they talked about his careerhere. At that time, the Sahakyan was the head of the Operadel of Vladimir IK-2. - Ed. ). They surrounded me, and the Sahakyan began to beat me and say: "If you do not cooperate with management, you will be bad." They beat for two hours.
I heard about Motorka that there is such a department, psychiatric - they are simply hung there. They bring normal people who do not cooperate with the investigation, put in this hospital and begin to chop some drugs, beaten. He sat in the same cell with this: he was put in a basin of water there, tortured electricity in this fool.
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After IK-3, they took me to Melekhovo to serve his punishment, everything was fine, no one touched me, as they promised. The whole stage was beaten except me. I saw that even one even to the hospital was taken away.
In 2018, the investigator came to me [in the colony], said that they opened a case of torture in this “pressat” and we need to give an explanatory. I was not afraid, gave all the testimony. The investigator insisted that I be closed to a safe place. I was closed for 90 days in PCT, I was sitting there alone. I was kept as a malicious offender, although I did not have a single report, only encouragement. Then they raised it to the detachment, although I asked for a transfer to another area, because one of the “pressers” in the pre-trial detention center was in the same colony. There they called me to talk to another “pressers”, they beat me for an hour and a half, scared me. But I did not agree with them. I knew that they would not rape me, because I saw the documents where the investigator asked the head of the FSIN about my security.
I was taken to investigative actions, and in the end we condemned one of the "pressers" from the pre-trial detention center-1, Yegor Kuralev. Then we also went to the SIZO-1 operative Vasily Voskobobonikov, already in 2020 ( in September 2019, the Press-Khati participant Yegor Kuralevwas convictedunder the article on the tortures, the operated by Vasily Voskoboboinikov in November 2020was sentencedunder the article on exceeding three years in prison with a ban on working in the system in the system The FSINA for a year and a half after the investigation of the case of the organization of the press, in the pre-trial detention center, “Important Stories” weretoldhere. Only he was condemned [from the employees], although the operative and another operative spoke with me in a pre-trial detention center, asked if I would work in a “press khat” and help them.
The head of the pre-trial detention center, Alexei Emelyanov, now in general in Moscow in the FSIN, the general is some kind of classified, he did not even say to the judge who now works ( “important stories” could not find out the current place of work of Emelyanov. - Approx. Ed. ). He was at the trial, in every possible way stood for Voskobobinikov. At that time, they kept me in the Vladimir Central, alone. Nobody touched me there, did not fit at all. They just crushed the fact that I was sitting alone, and that the music played all day.
Then I filed an application so that the rest of the term was replaced with correctional labor, it was approved for me, and after that the verdict was already canceled. And I already traveled to the courts in Voskobobonikov as a free person.
