Putin fired the deputy head of the Federal Penitentiary Service

President Vladimir Putin fired the deputy head of the Federal Penitentiary Service Anatoly Yakunin. A decree on this was published on the legal information portal.

“Relieve Lieutenant General of the Internal Service Anatoly Ivanovich Yakunin from the post of Deputy Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service,” the decree says.

On November 25, Putin dismissed the director of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Alexander Kalashnikov. to his position as head of the department . was appointed Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Arkady Gostev

Yakunin worked in various regional departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, including being the head of the Moscow department. In November 2019, he became assistant director of the Federal Penitentiary Service, and in August 2020, deputy director.

In the fall, the human rights project Gulagu.net began publishing dozens of videos showing beatings and sexual rape of prisoners in a Saratov prison hospital. Torture by convicts was regularly reported in other regions .