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The victims of torture lost the defender
- The courts in Irkutsk consider criminal cases of massive torture of prisoners.
- In Russia, a new version of the Law "On Citizenship" was adopted .
- Roskomnadzor approved the criteria for propaganda of LGBT, pedophilia and floor change.
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The courts in Irkutsk consider criminal cases of mass rape of prisoners in two investigative insulators of the region. The Investigative Committee refuses to call the exact number of victims. Human rights activists say that dozens of prisoners were victims of violence, who were brought to isolators from Angarsk colony No. 15 after a rebellion that broke out there in 2020. Recently, a representative of several victims, human rights activist Peter Kuryanov, was brought out of the processes. This happened shortly after one of the witnesses, answering Kuryanov’s questions in court, admitted that during the violence against convicts, employees of the penalty service entered the cells, who were not held criminally liable.
In the video with our studio - human rights activist, expert of the Foundation "In Protecting the Rights of Prisoners" Peter Kuryanov .
You were taken out of three cases where you represented the interests of the victims. Well, now they will be left without support?
Peter Kuryanov: No, of course, our lawyer Platon Ananiev has already connected to work, he had already visited our guys.
Maryana Torocheshnikova: Why is it so important that there are independent defenders in this matter?
Peter Kuryanov: All this overturning investigative and prosecutor’s machine must not only control, but generally change. The Federal Penitentiary Service of the Irkutsk Region, of course, is interested in the fact that the cases that entered the courts do not fall apart there. I do not exclude that some money was listed not only for the investigation, but now they are entered in the courts.
All this overturning machine should not only control, but generally change
Maryana Torocheshnikova: But this is only your assumption. How many cases did it come to the courts?
Peter Kuryanov: One big business - in relation to Kurbatov, Olennikov, Slavgorod and Gagarin. These are the so-called "developers" who really created the so-called "pressat" (press camera). And all that the administration from among the convicts from IK-15 Angarsk after the mass riots had brought them up to them, they began to beat the testimonies, self-cargoes right on the move, and at the same time used sexual violence. There were brooms, mops, bottles, twisted A4 sheets, tubes, deodorants. There were monstrous things!
Maryana Torocheshnikova: Why was it possible to use not only beatings, but also sexualized violence?
Petr Kuryanov: When the events took place in the IK-15 of Angarsk, the head of Gufsin Sagalakov, who led suppression, arrived, and yelled at the parade ground: "You will all go to the pre-trial detention center fuck!" (He shouted another word). And this oral threat was transformed by Sagalakov’s subordinates into such specific unlocking instructions and actions. Accustomed to take under the visor any whim of an employee of the FSIN "Developers" decided to fulfill the instructions of the boss with frenzy.
Maryana Torocheshnikova: All this, obviously, is in the materials of the criminal case, examinations were probably carried out, there are numerous testimony of the victims and witnesses. How can you ruin the case if such material is collected?
Peter Kuryanov: There is not a single video of the events in the case file. In most cases, there are not even examinations for traces, because they were made a year after the events. If you look objectively, that is, only the readings of the prisoners, words against words. And during the investigation, many children from among the witnesses simply fell off. Someone was freed and does not want to remember about it, someone was freed with supervision, and they intimidated him: "If you continue to act, we will close you again." And on those who remained with a long time, slowly is slowly. Someone is "bought" by promises of parole, someone-material things: tea, smoking and so on. Nevertheless, the guys remain, they are huge well done. Most have a mood to bring this matter to the end.
There were brooms, mops, bottles, tubes, deodorants. There were monstrous things!
Maryana Torocheshnikova: You started with one business. As I understand it, in addition to him, there are at least four more related to the "developers". Nevertheless, there is one more, sixth case associated with one of the employees of the penalty service, pre-trial detention center. But these cases have not yet reached court, there is only a consequence.
Peter Kuryanov: according to the pre-trial detention center-6 of Angarsk, the case is at the stage of familiarizing the accused with the materials. There are two employees with them. Employees who, in a large "Angarsk business", in addition to the 286th article, are also accused of the 132nd.
Maryana Torocheshnikova: "Excess of authority" and "violent actions of a sexual nature."
Peter Kuryanov: During sexual actions, one beat on the legs, the other performed other active actions aimed at suppressing the will of the victim. But according to the pre-trial detention center-1, only two of this huge pile of criminal cases of sexual violence at the moment-this is the head of the SIZO Mokeev and his deputy Samara. They are accused of, without burdening themselves with unnecessary workflow, they allowed the transfer of convicts IK-15 into the camera, which contained investigatively Arested, that is, they showed oversight: they planted prisoners with the accused. This is the 286th. And in sexual violence - there is a motive why they committed such crimes: out of a sense of personal hostility, it turns out.
Maryana Torocheshnikova: That is, all these defendants, for the most part, do not want to admit that they acted from the teaching of someone from the administration.
Most have a mood to bring this matter to the end
Peter Kuryanov: Irkutsk Gufsin does not throw them, supports them. They completely deny their guilt: "We did nothing, they are slandering us." I also talked with the employees, they say: "How many prisoners will speak? You listen to them more." I say: "Such a number of cases is already in court, the investigation is completed." And they: "Come on, do you, do not know what the consequence we have? They wanted - and fabricated on our honest employees."
Is it possible to listen to Tchaikovsky?
In 2022, the Russian courts made a maximum of decisions in cases related to the ban on LGBT propaganda, calculated in the DOXA publication. The amount of fines exceeded one and a half million rubles. It is possible that in 2023 such cases and fined ones will become even more, since now in Russia any propaganda of "non-traditional sexual relations" is prohibited, as deputies call it. However, introducing a ban, they did not explain what exactly is considered to be a LGBT propaganda and for which people would be specifically punished. Finally last week, Roskomnadzor, with his order, approved the criteria for propaganda of LGBT, pedophilia and sex change.
Dali passport - passport was selected
In Russia, a new version of the Law "On Citizenship" was adopted. This document at the end of last year was submitted to the Duma Vladimir Putin. By the second reading, he initiated amendments to the text that allow us to deprive acquired citizenship, for example, for the "discrediting of the Russian Army", desertion and extremism. At the same time, the document involves simplified receipt of Russian citizenship for more than 20 categories of applicants, including immigrants from the former Soviet republics.
I hardly see the categories of citizens who will become easier to obtain Russian citizenship under the new law
In touch, the chairman of the Council of the Kaluga Regional Branch of the Movement "For Human Rights" Tatyana Kotlyar .
What now will fundamentally change for applicants in obtaining citizenship of the Russian Federation?
Tatyana Kotlyar: So far, I practically do not see those categories of citizens of other states that will be easier to obtain Russian citizenship under the new law. Perhaps there is only one category - this is the mother or dad of the child who is a citizen of Russia. Now, if the parents are married to both one of them - a Russian citizen and a child - a Russian citizen, then, for example, a mother, a foreign citizen, receives a temporary residence or residence permit for a child or husband and can immediately apply for a common child and marriage to Russian citizenship. Now it is directly written that if a child is a citizen of Russia, then the parent can apply for Russian citizenship.
Maryana Torocheshnikova: And all these immigrants from countries - former republics of the USSR, participants in the program on the relocation of compatriots? Does nothing change for them for the better?
Tatyana Kotlyar: Participants in the program of resettlement of compatriots can now receive Russian citizenship: they arrived, submitted for temporary residence permit. And if you were not canceled, because you had a fictitious registration, then you can, having received this permit, apply for citizenship.
Maryana Torocheshnikova: This was all announced as a big gift to people who wanted to receive Russian citizenship for a long time, but could not. And this law somehow facilitates the fate of those former citizens of the USSR who live in Russia and still have no citizenship?
If you remove the requirement to receive certificates for knowledge of the Russian language, it is probably good
Tatyana Kotlyar: No, he puts a cross on the possibility of obtaining Russian citizenship. Once a whole chapter fell, 8 note: it was specially about former citizens of the USSR, long living in Russia, until 2001 and before, and still have not received Russian citizenship, while having no citizenship, nor a residence permit in another country. I know a lot of such people, I helped a lot. Suppose this is a native of Georgia, in childhood, the family moved to Russia; Then, when the Soviet Union collapsed, they could not obtain Russian citizenship simply because, say, there were no registrations, passports. Georgia admitted that they are not its citizens, but Russia does not give them citizenship. For them, there was specially a whole chapter: persons recognized by LBG born in the USSR, or their children who came to Russia until 2001 and since then constantly living and without any citizenship can immediately apply for citizenship.
This chapter is no more. Thus, a whole category of persons is lost, and the most helpless. But in general, first obtaining a temporary residence permit, then a residence permit and so on - these people obviously will not be able to obtain citizenship.
Maryana Torocheshnikova: Is there something good in this law?
Tatyana Kotlyar: We’ll wait - see. If for a child, a citizen of Russia, regardless of registration of parents, it will be possible to apply for citizenship, then this is good. If they remove the requirement to receive certificates for knowledge of the Russian language, this is probably good, because it is an expensive pleasure.
But what is perfect savagery in this law ... Now people who are three or more in marriage with a Russian citizen can apply for citizenship. It was removed. That is, childless spouses cannot get Russian citizenship at all. These are spouses who live together in Russia. I do not know who interfered that they can become citizens of the Russian Federation.
Maryana Torocheshnikova: It seems that they changed their awl to soap, that it was not necessary to accept this new edition at all ...
Childless spouses now cannot get Russian citizenship at all
Tatyana Kotlyar: Maybe it was necessary. But in any working group it is necessary to invite specialists-theoreticals and practitioners working on Earth. And even Konstantin Zatulin, to this edition, for what he was a pro -government deputy, and then cursed the last words, cursed that everyone who receive Russian citizenship by law became incomplete citizens. The Constitution says that a Russian citizen cannot be deprived of Russian citizenship without his will, and in the law it is accepted that a Russian citizen, if he received this citizenship, and not by birth, may be deprived of citizenship at the request of the authorities.
Moreover, at first there was "terrorism" and so on, and now they added such grounds that I begin to think. I am a citizen of Russia not by birth, but by recognition (born in Tallinn). And well, I can deprive me of a Russian passport for saying that I am an opponent of Russia's aggression in Ukraine ? According to this new law, it turns out that it is possible. But this should not be, because the law and the Constitution says that Russia's citizenship is equal, regardless of the method of obtaining.
Maryana Torocheshnikova: But the commentary of the lawyer, an expert on constitutional law Olga Podolova . She fears that the procedure for deprivation of citizenship can now turn into an instrument of pressure, which will be given to the state security organs.
Olga Prapolova: The new position concerns such a basis for the termination of citizenship as the commission of actions that create a threat of national security. Here are the most questions to him: how will this be put into practice, what will this lead to? It can be assumed that this new measure can be applied pointily, including to political activists, to those who speak out on painful social topics. And, of course, in the risk zone there are precisely those who have gained citizenship in the order of naturalization and are not silent about what is happening, expresses their opinion, posts on social networks, and go to public events.
This new measure can be applied pointily, including to political activists
It is especially interesting how the provision of the law will act that the decision to terminate citizenship can be made regardless of the date of the implementation of actions that contain the threat of national security, and the date of identification of these actions. Formally, this norm can be read as having retroactive force. Even if a person received Russian citizenship before the date of entry into force of this new law, he may lose citizenship just on this completely odious basis. And to appeal these actions, he can only have ten days. This significant reduction in the appeal period is also a message to people that they should behave as quietly as possible, not to appear anywhere with the opinion that is different from the general line of the party. And I assume that these decisions can be very arbitrary - depending on which groups of the population want to intimidate.
It is difficult to analyze how this will affect the dynamics of people obtaining citizenship of the Russian Federation. I assume that the main restraint will be by no means this new provision of the law regarding the powers of the FSB, and the fact that, together with the receipt of a red passport, a person also receives an invitation to the military registration and enlistment office. There are already quite a lot of documented cases that people offer citizenship just in the exchange of participation in their own, sometimes forced them to receive Russian citizenship and record as volunteers. And, in my opinion, this is just a much more serious restraining factor than a hypothetical opportunity to lose citizenship in the conclusion of the FSB.
Together with a red passport, a person also receives an invitation to the military registration and enlistment office
Probably, every second law, which is now adopted by the State Duma and which somehow affects the life of citizens trying to express their opinion, suffers that it does not correspond to the principle of legal certainty and many other constitutional principles. And here I would no longer even operate on this concept, since many norms simply have nothing to do with constitutional guarantees, with constitutional and international standards for the protection of human rights. This norm cannot be rewritten in such a way that it is constitutional, corresponded to the principle of legal certainty.