The prosecutor's office dropped the criminal case against the programmer who transferred the torture video archive to Gulagu.net

The prosecutor's office of the Saratov region dropped the criminal case against the programmer Sergei Savelyev, who handed over to human rights activists a video archive with the torture of prisoners in the FSIN system. This is reported by the Gulagu.net project.

As the head of Gulagu.net Vladimir Osechkin said in the project stream, the criminal prosecution was canceled due to its illegality and groundlessness. In addition, on November 16, the court will consider a petition to cancel Savelyev's arrest in absentia. Russia some time ago Savelyev himself left .

In mid-October, a criminal case was opened against Savelyev for illegal access to computer information (Article 272 of the Criminal Code). After that, the man was put on the federal wanted list, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced his arrest in absentia .

As Gulagu.net wrote, Savelyev, being convicted, worked for five years without pay in the regional tuberculosis hospital No. 1 (OTB-1) in Saratov. About how he managed to collect a video archive of what was happening in the Federal Penitentiary Service and how he got to Paris after that, Savelyev told the BBC Russian Service.

• In early October, the human rights project Gulagu.net announced that it had received a secret video archive of torture and rape of convicts in Russian correctional facilities in the Irkutsk, Saratov and Vladimir regions. Torture videos are still published .
• The Saratov Investigative Committee opened five cases on group violent acts of a sexual nature (paragraph "a" part 2 of article 132 of the Criminal Code) and on abuse of power by employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service with the use of violence (paragraph "a" part 3 of article 286 of the Criminal Code) in OTB-1 Saratov. On November 10, it became known that 18 employees of the Saratov Federal Penitentiary Service were fired after the publication of videos.