A former prisoner of Karelian IK-9 spoke in court about torture
In the Petrozavodsk City Court, which is considering the case of the ex-chief of IK-9 Ivan Savelyev and his deputy Ivan Kovalev, former prisoner Nikolai Efimov testified. He confirmed that Savelyev and Kovalev beat the prisoners, lawyer Roman Masalev, who collaborates with the “Zone of Law,” told Mediazona. Efimov served his sentence in IK-9 of Petrozavodsk from 2010 to 2016, and is now a witness in the case of Savelyev and Kovalev, who are accused of torturing prisoners.