Prisoners of the Irkutsk colony staged a mass hunger strike

In the Irkutsk region, prisoners of a correctional colony began a hunger strike due to constant bullying and torture. Since the beginning of September, two convicts died there.

In the Irkutsk region, the IK-2 prisoners declared a mass hunger strike because of the death of two convicts, the Gulag.net's human rights project reports with reference to a source in the GUFSIN.

As the founder of the project, Vladimir Osechkin, said to the Siberia. Realii*, prisoners are protested against torture. They are humiliated, they are destroyed, they are stripped, beaten, fucked into handcuffs and dragged on the floor.

In total, at least 10 cases of the application of physical strength to prisoners were recorded there, two sources of publication said. Information about the hunger strike due to the beatings and deaths of the convicts of Siberia. Reali was also confirmed by the relatives of the prisoners.

In early July, 38 prisoners of the Angarsk IK-2 declared a hunger strike because of the “arbitrariness from the fighters of the FSIN special forces in“ Masks ”, Taiga.info wrote . Shortly before that, the convicts began to conduct searches "every two days."

Earlier, the acting chief IK-2 appointed ex-employee of the Angarsk IK-15 Roman Skorobogatov. Following him, part of the investigators of the colony No. 15 also crossed. It was with the change of superiors that the interlocutors associated the pressure on the IK-2 prisoners.

UPD (12:19) In a single room of chamber type (EPT) in the IK-2, 40 people continue the hunger strike, Taiga.info told a source familiar with the situation.

“In the barracks, everything is the same [as in the EPCT]: they take personal belongings, break the dishes. They do everything while the prisoners in the dining room, ”said the interlocutor of the editorial office. - In addition, fire exits were laid in many barracks. It is not very clear why they are trying to not leave spare exits for prisoners at all, or the situation is being prepared there, as in IK-15. ”

UPD (13:10) GUFSIN employees in the Irkutsk region sent materials about the mass hunger strike to IK-2 to the prosecutor's office, TASS reports . The department claims that five people refused food.

“This is a demonstrative-fluid behavior. In order to find out if they have a complaint about the daily routine, we made materials to the prosecutor’s office so that the third party overseeing the body gives a conclusion, ”Gufsin said.

Taiga.info spoke in detail about known cases of mass bullying, torture and violence against prisoners in the Irkutsk region, which became known after the protest in the Angarsk IK-15 in April 2020. The head of the FSIN Alexander Kalashnikov spoke of 75 victims. The interlocutors estimated the total number of victims of 500 people, a significant part of whom could be raped.

So far, it was possible to confirm the initiation of cases on the fact of bullying four prisoners, although the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia announced nine criminal cases. At the end of May 2021, a source familiar with the progress of the case said that investigators appointed 27 new medical examinations regarding the establishment of the fact of causing grievous bodily harm to the Angarskaya IK-15 prisoners, who were massively taken to the Irkutsk SIZO-1 and Angarsk SIZO-6 in April 2020. According to the interlocutor, the number of examinations, as a rule, corresponds to the number of victims who can be recognized as new victims.

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