The prosecutor's office considered legal the actions of the employees of the Kansk pre-trial detention center, whom the teacher, convicted of shooting at a pro-war banner, accused of violence

The Kansk Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office recognized as legal the actions of employees of local pre-trial detention center No. 5, whose violence was reported by English teacher Vitaly Barinov, sentenced to two years in prison for shooting at a pro-war banner. The department’s letter to Mediazona was provided by a reader.

According to the document, checks regarding the use of “illegal methods of influence by the staff of the pre-trial detention center and persons held in the pre-trial detention center” against Barinov were carried out by the Investigative Committee and the police. Both departments found no violations.

In his last letter to human rights activist Anna Tazheeva, the teacher said that he was threatened with new criminal cases, including under the article on calls for extremism. “This is when several prisoners collaborating with the administration unanimously write a denunciation on instructions that such and such said such and such in their presence,” Barinov explained the possible course of further events.

As the English teacher previously noted, in the pre-trial detention center he was required to confess to a crime that he did not commit. On March 3, he was admitted to the prison hospital; before that, two people in medical masks forced him to admit guilt, presumably in the arson of the regional military registration and enlistment office, which occurred on the night of September 24.

“I refused, which greatly upset them (of course, no violence was used against me), then, on the way to the cell, I tripped and, falling, cut my forehead and broke my leg,” the teacher wrote. As a result, Barinov spent 26 days in the hospital. Then he was returned to the Kansk pre-trial detention center, and on April 21 the court announced the verdict. “Most likely, I will slip and fall again, breaking my face,” the teacher suggested.