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Prison organized crime group
Gorky magazine published a fragment of the book of journalist Eva Merkacheva “Who is good to live in Russia? How prisons are arranged in modern Russia ”On torture in the regional tuberculosis hospital No. 1 of the FSIN Office in the Saratov Region:
“In this department, convicted Adilbek Akhmedov, whom the Sidelski considered the Martyr hero, died.
<...> Adilbek compiled lists of "activists" and employees who are involved in <...> (torture - Polit.ru). It turned out that this is a real organized crime group, which is “roofed” by the UFSIN leadership. Several times he wrote notes with names and dates, I handed them to my lawyer so that the materials would be in the will <...>. It’s just that no one reacted to the stories about torture, no one believed us. And the video is that you can’t refute. Akhmedov was a very good person who tried to resist the system. He would never commit suicide. It is unfortunate that we could not save him. <...>
The convicts clearly describe the three causes of torture. The first is money. <...> The second is a confession. <...> The third is a punishment for complaints.
- When we are delivered to the Kirovsky district court of Saratov, we are beaten by a police officer. There is a staircase in the court, it is not visible from the bottom of video surveillance from below, that’s when they are led to it, blows on each step. This is a punishment for those who refuse to write at the end of guilty and cooperate with the investigation.
- But this is at the stage of investigation, but in the colony, after all, such famers are no longer needed?
- Of course, we need it. In IK-13, for this, the asset was mainly created. It is now called the DPD (voluntary fire squads). They accepted the stages. This is how this happens: “activists” line up in a column on both sides, and you must run through this system with a bag in your hands. Everyone strikes you. <...> After building, you are taken to the office to the "activist" K. are put on his knees in front of him. Then they lead to the sleeping section, where they put on stretching and demand to shout: "I love the administration." If you refuse, drag into the toilet, dip in the toilet with water.
“But then they don’t touch it anymore?”
- What are you?! Then they also make the appearances with a guilty write. It doesn’t matter to what they say: “Consider yourself some kind of crime and repent in it.” Of the torture that they use, I especially remember when you are tied and begin to pour water on your face and head. Three buckets were poured on me. I choked. It's all scary. Some convicted "activists" were triggered as a punishment in bags. These are such traffic large bags, they managed to push a person there. They fastened the zipper and went with this bag, then they left it somewhere.
<...> Now in some colonies of the Saratov region, to put it mildly, restless. In one colony, the prisoners killed the convict. We are shown a video on which convicts send employees to three letters, rush at them. The Federal Penitentiary Service fights, as he considers necessary: he introduces special forces, collects materials about disorganization. But we believe that it would be worth trying to sit down at the negotiating table. Most people do not want to play “activists” and thieves, they just hope to calmly leave their term and go out to freedom - unconscious and unlucky. ”