Novaya Gazeta Publishes New Torture Videos From Notorious Russian Prison

New video footage asserting to show the ruthless torment of Russian prisoners, one of whom died soon after the video was recorded, has actually surfaced, the independent Novaya Gazeta paper reported on Tuesday.

Novaya Gazeta says both video clips originated from the same prison nest where gruesome leaked footage of guards tormenting inmates stimulated a national rumor and also arrests of prison officials in 2018. They are the eighth and also ninth video clips of torment to appear from Yaroslavl area Penal Colony-1, the paper claimed.

In the very first video clip, which dates from August 2016, a prisoner that asked that his identification be maintained private is seen being defeated on his buttocks and also legs by guards with truncheons. The inmate was hospitalized for 2 weeks after his launch from prison, Novaya Gazeta reported.

The second video clip, from April 2017, reveals guards beating Georgian person Vazha Bochorishvili with truncheons on the buttocks and also legs as he lies naked and also face-down on a table, yelling for them to stop. After guards pull him off the table, he falls down subconscious to the flooring.

Following these events, Bochorishvili’s member of the family informed Novaya Gazeta that he was initially positioned in singular arrest and afterwards hospitalized a couple of days later on, where he died on May 9. Doctors diagnosed him with extreme liver damage and injury as well as the authorities never ever introduced a criminal case right into his fatality, the newspaper reported.

The Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN)’s Yaroslavl region head office later claimed it has released an inquiry right into the video clips. The Yaroslavl area’s Investigative Committee has also opened up a criminal case into abuse of power, its press solution told Interfax.

The 2018 torment video clips from the Yaroslavl region Penal Colony-1 triggered extensive public outcry within Russia over the country’s brutal prison system as well as UN stricture and a number of prison officials being dismissed or charged with misuse of power.

Novaya Gazeta got the latest videos from the Public Verdict human rights structure, which has been labeled a “international representative” in Russia.

A 2019 poll said that in 10 Russians have actually been subjected to what they viewed to be torture by police officials.

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