#Russian Federal Penitentiary Service

[haxyr3]

If this is true (and, unfortunately, it looks like it is), it means the world has witnessed another crime of Putin and his regime.

I wish Alexey would live to see Putin in the international criminal court...

[libertyvigil]

of course, some of this isn't understandable because I put it through google translate.

but still, the dehumanization evident is shocking.

we hear of this, but to hear from one person who has gone through it--

(I haven't even watched this but just the description is horrific)

we know some of what's going on, but we need to know more. THIS MUST STOP

russia has totally fallen into barbarism and cruelty.

from gulagu.net:

00:01:30 Video 18+ providing medical assistance to a Ukrainian from the hospital after being released from captivity (clearly - injuries from torture and holes in the legs);

00:04:00 About how bound prisoners were thrown from the KAMAZ, tortured and shot

00:08:50 How the military from the Russian Federation were going to rape the prisoner

00:14:15 Aleksey Anulya before and after captivity. Photofact

00:16:00 About how dad Alexei was killed

00:31:00 About how wounded Ukrainians are mocked

00:48:30 About seconded sadists from different DOS UFSIN

00:51:20 Special forces "nailed it hard"

00:54:00 About how the FSB and the Federal Penitentiary Service recruit prisoners

00:54:45 Federal Penitentiary Service: ��Did your mother beat you as a child? And she beat me!”

00:58:00 About how special forces beat captive women

01:04:00 About torturing naked prisoners in a bathhouse with electric shocks and not only

01:09:50 About how the concentration camp nurse hated Ukrainians

01:13:20 How the Federal Penitentiary Service "painted eggs" on Easter, beat the prisoners and broke their ribs

01:14:25 About how the prisoners were put food into the bowl of the service dog of the Federal Penitentiary Service

01:18:15 About how sadists tried to rape captive women

01:38:45 How soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were carved on the cheek Z

01:42:30 About the position in which prisoners were forced to stand for 17 hours a day

01:45:15 About torture, tapik, electric current and heart burn

01:50:00 Everywhere in concentration camps there are portraits of Dzerzhinsky - the "leader of torture"

01:56:20 Nurse about torture: “They are not beaten - they are taught about their lives!”

01:56:50 About how the FSB tortures during interrogations

02:10:30 Soldering in the punishment cell - 2 tablespoons of cut. Starvation torture for 4 months

02:21:40 About torture by sleep deprivation

02:24:30 Ex-prisoner Aleksey Anulya about how he ate a worm to survive

02:29:15 After hitting the door with a stick, the prisoners should yell "Zelensky pi___ras, Biden pi___ras, Stoltenberg pi___ras, Putin is our president!"

03:10:00 How a ghost saved a prisoner

03:11:10 How to close your eyes so that they do not fly out from the blows of the sadists from the Federal Penitentiary Service

03:13:00 How I ate a rat to survive

03:18:40 What is a “tapik” and about 2 types of electric current used to torture captured Ukrainians

03:22:00 Testimony about “white pipes” (know-how of sadists so as not to break the special equipment of the PR - rubber sticks, the Federal Penitentiary Service now beat prisoners with pipes for water supply)

[mariacallous]

How Russia sent prisoners to war with no contracts, no injury compensation, and no military serviceman status

The Russian Defense Ministry recruited former inmates to fight in the invasion of Ukraine based only on “written agreements” that did not constitute legal contracts, according to a new investigation from BBC News Russian. The report cites more than 20 Russian court rulings issued in suits filed by former inmates and their families over the authorities’ refusal to issue compensation payments for the men’s injuries or deaths.

Among these court decisions, journalists found previously classified information referring to “special contingent volunteers” who fought in “Storm Z” units, Russia’s assault formations made up primarily of prisoners. According to the BBC, the terms of these former inmates’ service were set by special classified orders, rather than by the rules governing most other combatants’ employment. The military recruited prisoners to serve in these “special contingents” between February 24 and September 1, 2023, and they were sent to the war for six-month terms in exchange for presidential pardons.

What was the ‘legal’ basis for this program?

According to the documents reviewed by BBC, Putin issued a decree calling for the Defense Ministry to develop a new procedure for selecting inmates to carry out “particularly important combat missions and special tasks” in February 2023. According to one court ruling, the entire project, including the creation of “Storm Z” units, fell under a program called “For Freedom” (stylized as “Za сVободу” in Russian).

Were these former inmates classified as soldiers, mercenaries, or something else?

Members of the “special contingent” were not granted the formal status of military serviceman; multiple court rulings specify that they took part in the war “under special conditions.” Judges indicated in their decisions that the “legal nature” of the Storm Z squads “differs from that of an [ordinary] volunteer formation” and that the units don’t fall under the article on volunteer formations in Russia’s law “On Defense.”

How did the enlistment process work?

After being recruited, prisoners in the “special contingent” were transferred to a prison in Russia’s Rostov region, near the Ukrainian border, where they reportedly signed “written agreements” under the supervision of state officials.

In these documents, the former prisoners indicated that they “expressed their consent” to participate in the war “with the aim of atoning for their guilt before society for the crime they committed.” One of the court decisions reviewed by BBC notes that the “agreement in question does not constitute a contract laying out the rights and liabilities of each party.”

According to the investigation, Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service attached one copy of the “agreement” to each convict’s personal file and sent a second copy to the Defense Ministry; the former prisoners themselves were not given copies of their own.

Why weren’t these former prisoners compensated for injuries?

In 2023, the Russian Defense Ministry released a decree establishing “separate [...] rules regulating salaries and additional payments” for ex-prisoners, according to court documents. These rules call for former inmates’ salaries to be two to four times smaller than the salaries of combatants in other categories, though it entitles their families to death compensation payments equivalent to those of other fighters.

Members of the “special contingent,” however, were not granted any of these benefits, including both disability and death payouts. One court document explains that this is because they were “not entitled to the compensation payments laid out by Putin in his 2022 decree.” The same document also indicates that the decision on whether to send injured fighters from the “contingent” back into combat after their hospitalization was made by assault unit commanders rather than medical workers.

Did any of these former inmates or relatives win their lawsuits?

The BBC was able to find only one case of a court siding with a former “special contingent” member seeking compensation for an injury. The case involved a man from the Rostov region who was serving a nine-year prison sentence before going to the front, where he was wounded by a landmine. The court awarded him 600,000 rubles ($6,451), though the Rostov regional authorities have appealed the decision.

[workersolidarity]

🇺🇸⚔️🇷🇺 🚨

U.S. PRESIDENT BIDEN SLAMS RUSSIAN PRESIDENT PUTIN AFTER FAR RIGHT-WING RUSSIAN ACTIVIST ALAXEI NAVALNY'S DEATH IN RUSSIAN PRISON

📹 🤡 U.S. Great-Grandfather and Clown in Chief President Joe Biden slams Putin over the death of Far Right-wing political activist Alexei Navalny's death in a Russian prison, using his death as an opportunity to call for more funding for Kiev's failing war in the east of the country.

The U.S. President had nothing to say about the death of the American and Chilean journalist, Gonzalo Lira, in a Ukrainian prison just weaks ago, even after publishing videos earlier in the year begging the U.S. government to intervene before he was tortured to death. Sadly, he died as a result of untreated pneumonia in a Ukrainian prison hospital.

Alexei Navalny, though supported by Western governments and raised up as an "anti-corruption" activist, especially by the United States, was known in Russia as a self-described "certified nationalist" who called Muslims "flies and cockroaches" who needed to exterminated.

Navalny was serving a prison sentence of 19 years for offenses involving "extremism", with some early sources saying he died from a blood clot, losing consciousness after taking a walk and found by prison staff soon after. Prison medical doctors pronounced Navalny dead after arriving soon after.

Kremlin spokesperson, Dimitry Peskov told reporters Friday that medical personnel with Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) are "taking all the steps that need to be taken in such a situation," adding that medical personnel with the FSIN were investigating Navalny's cause of death and will inform the Russian President of their results.

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@WorkerSolidarityNews

[shattered-pieces]

Russian authorities are using torture “with a sense of impunity” in the ongoing war in Ukraine, the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva heard on Monday. In an oral update to members, Erik Møse, chair of the Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, said it has documented new cases of torture committed by Russian authorities against civilians and prisoners of war in occupied areas of Ukraine and in the Russian Federation. “We gathered evidence of sexual violence used as torture, mainly against male victims in detention, and of rapes targeting women in villages under Russian control,” he said. “The wide geographic spread of locations where torture was committed and the prevalence of shared patterns demonstrate that torture has been used as a common and acceptable practice by Russian authorities, with a sense of impunity,” he added. Consistency and coordination The three-member Commission was established roughly a week after the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. It has previously highlighted how torture committed by Russian authorities has been both widespread and systematic. Mr. Møse said recent investigations show that Russian authorities have committed torture in Ukrainian regions under Russian control, thus reinforcing the finding that torture has been widespread, while additional common elements uphold that it has been systematic.  “One element is the consistency of practices in detention centres where detainees from Ukraine have been held in the Russian Federation, and the replication of these practices in several large penitentiary centres in occupied areas of Ukraine,” he said. “Another common element emerging from the evidence points towards a coordinated use of personnel from specific services of the Russian Federation who are involved in torture in all the detention facilities investigated by the Commission. A further common feature is the recurrent use of sexual violence as a form of torture in almost all these detention centres.”

The Commission also cited the testimonies of former detainees who said prison staff in the Russian Federation referred to orders to inflict brutal treatment. Furthermore, in some facilities higher ranking authorities ordered, tolerated or took no action towards stopping it. “For instance, in a detention centre in occupied territories of Ukraine, a witness described the arrival of a penitentiary official from the Russian Federation who introduced himself to the detainees, stating, ‘I broke everyone and will do the same to you’”, said Mr. Møse. He noted that “a disturbing factor” reported in many detention facilities was the lack of adequate medical assistance. “In one facility, even penitentiary doctors participated in the torture,” he added.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/09/1154706

[humanrightsupdates]

Urgent Action: STOP THE INHUMANE TREATMENT OF MARIA PONOMARENKO IN PRISON (Russia 33.24)

The Russian authorities are putting the health and life of journalist Maria Ponomarenko at risk due to her treatment, and the conditions in detention, including being held in solitary confinement and not receiving adequate healthcare. Maria was sentenced to six years imprisonment solely for exercising her right to freedom of expression and must be released immediately and unconditionally.

Since her arrest in 2022 there have been multiple reports of her ill-treatment and arbitrary punishment in custody in IK-6 (Shipunovo) and SIZO-1 and SIZO-2 in Barnaul, including:

Forced psychiatric treatment, including administration of unknown drugs; Provision of ill-fitting shoes ahead of a disciplinary hearing; Disruptions in provision of medication; Confiscation of authorized goods and groceries by Federal Penitentiary Service staff; Threats by Federal Penitentiary Service staff to deprive Maria of phone calls with her family; Repeated placement in solitary confinement.

Maria suffers from claustrophobia and other mental health conditions and cannot safely be placed in solitary confinement. During her previous placement in a punishment cell her mental health deteriorated, and she attempted suicide

TAKE ACTION:

Write a letter in your own words or using the sample below as a guide to one or both government officials listed. You can also email, fax, call or Tweet them.

Click here to let us know the actions you took on Urgent Action 33.24. It’s important to report because we share the total number with the officials we are trying to persuade and the people we are trying to help.

[tanadrin]

Details: The human rights defenders posted the testimony of two former commanders of the Wagner private military company units, who were recruited to join Yevgeny Prigozhin's mercenaries from the Russian colonies.

They are Azamat Uldarov, a former convict of Correctional Labour Colony №13 of the Russian Office of the Federal Penitentiary Service from Saratov Oblast (pardoned by the decree of the President of the Russian Federation from 23 August 2022) and Alexei Savichev, a former convict of the Corrective labour colony №1 of the Russian Office of the Federal Penitentiary Service from Voronezh Oblast (pardoned by Putin's decree from 2 September 2022).

The criminals are currently in Russia.

During the week, they testified during video and audio interviews and informed Vladimir Osechkin, the Gulagu.net founder, about the details of the shooting of more than 20 Ukrainian children and teenagers, the blowing up of a pit with more than 50 wounded prisoners and the so-called "500" (those who decided to stop fighting and refused to carry out orders to kill Ukrainians), clearing residential buildings and killing everyone, including children.

In particular, one of the Wagnerites admits that he "shot a 5-year-old girl in the head" when they went to Soledar and Bakhmut: "She screams, she is a small child, you understand. I shot a 5-6-year-old girl in the head."

Uldarov said that he "cleared" the basement with 300-400 civilians; about 40 of them were children. According to him, it was a 9-story building. The occupier adds that "he had no choice" and that he had an order to dispose of everyone.

Quote from Uldarov: "I executed the order with this very hand, I killed the children. You understand, by order. The fact that we… We were given the order to wipe out and kill everyone… We went and killed everyone – women, men, pensioners and children, in particular, the small ones, 5 year-olds."

According to the terrorists, a command to mop up Bakhmut came from Prigozhin. He ordered not to spare anyone – neither old people nor children, just to kill them all. It was even worse in Soledar.

Uldarov also said that he "cleared" the basement of a 9-story building in Bakhmut with 300-400 civilians inside, including 40 children. The occupier adds that "he had no choice" and that he had an order to kill everyone.

The terrorist stated that it happened in March 2023.

Quote from Savichev: "Peaceful residents were going outside. And there was an order: everyone aged 15 and over – shoot all of them at once. 20–24 people were shot, 10 of them were 15-year-old and 17-year-old teenagers."

Asked how many unarmed civilians they killed in February 2023, Savychev replied that 15-year-old Ukrainians "are difficult to call civilians."

Both former commanders of the units of the Wagner private military company units also said that Prigozhin personally gave criminal orders to execute people, approving terrorist methods and brutality.

cannot begin to express how asinine it is to call people “warmongers” because they think it is right to support people resisting these kinds of atrocities with force of arms

[russianprotesters]

«Не погиб. Убит». В Белграде сербы и русские вместе идут в колонне с лоз...

An action against Putin began in the center of Belgrade after the news of the murder of oppositionist Alexei Navalny in the torture chamber of IK-3 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Serbs and Russians march together in a column with the slogans “Russia without Putin.”

Video filmed by a Gulagu.net volunteer

[argumate]

Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin announced on February 9 that the Wagner Group has entirely stopped recruiting prisoners. In a response to a press comment, Prigozhin claimed that Wagner’s recruitment of prisoners has "completely stopped" and that "all obligations are being fulfilled" for those currently under Wagner’s employ. Prigozhin also absurdly claimed that over 10 million Americans have applied to join Wagner. The Wagner Group will likely continue to recruit from prisons, albeit in a much more limited capacity. As ISW has previously noted, Wagner’s recruitment of prisoners has slowed over the last few months, an assessment confirmed by statistics by the Federal Penitentiary Service that show that decreases in the Russian prison population stabilized between November 2022 and January 2023. This phenomenon is consistent with the overall trend of conventional Russian troops slowly replacing the Wagner Group around Bakhmut, indicating that Russian military command may be shifting away from its reliance on Wagner and therefore on using prisoners as cannon fodder.

[sawtelghad]

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[alaturkanews]

Security forces 'kill' IS hostage takers in Russian detention centre

Russian security forces stormed a detention centre in southern Russia on Sunday killing inmates who had taken two members of staff hostage, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported on Sunday. The hostages at the pretrial detention centre in Rostov-on-Don were uninjured, said RIA Novosti, citing Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service. It said that the hostage takers had been “liquidated,”…

[mrmichael55]

Might True Religion be Religionless?

FILE – Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is seen on a TV screen as he appears in a video link provided by the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service from the colony in Melekhovo, Vladimir region, during a hearing at the Russian Supreme Court in Moscow, Russia, on June 22, 2023. The Kremlin on Tuesday Dec. 12, 2023 bristled at the U.S. voicing concern about Navalny who has vanished from his…

[delhinewsinenglish]

Over 400 detained in Russia as country mourns the death of Alexei Navalny, Putin's fiercest foe

Over 400 people were detained in Russia while paying tribute to opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died at a remote Arctic penal colony, a prominent rights group reported.

The sudden death of Navalny, 47, was a crushing blow to many Russians, who had pinned their hopes for the future on President Vladimir Putin's fiercest foe. Navalny remained vocal in his unrelenting criticism of the Kremlin even after surviving a nerve agent poisoning and receiving multiple prison terms.

The news reverberated across the globe, and hundreds of people in dozens of Russian cities streamed to ad-hoc memorials and monuments to victims of political repressions with flowers and candles on Friday and Saturday to pay a tribute to the politician. In over a dozen cities, police detained 401 people by Saturday night, according to the OVD-Info rights group that tracks political arrests and provides legal aid.

More than 200 arrests were made in St Petersburg, Russia's second largest city, the group said. Among those detained there was Grigory Mikhnov-Voitenko, a priest of the Apostolic Orthodox Church — a religious group independent of the Russian Orthodox Church — who announced plans on social media to hold a memorial service for Navalny and was arrested on Saturday morning outside his home.

He was charged with organising a rally and placed in a holding cell in a police precinct, but was later hospitalised with a stroke, OVD-Info reported.

Courts in St Petersburg have ordered 42 of those detained on Friday to serve from one to six days in jail, while nine others were fined, court officials said late on Saturday. In Moscow, at least six people were ordered to serve 15 days in jail, according to OVD-Info. One person was also jailed in the southern city of Krasnodar and two more in the city of Bryansk, the group said.

The news of Navalny's death came a month before a presidential election in Russia that is widely expected to give President Vladimir Putin another six years in power. Questions about the cause of death lingered on Sunday, and it remained unclear when the authorities would release his body to his family.

Navalny's team said Saturday that the politician was “murdered” and accused the authorities of deliberately stalling the release of the body, with Navalny's mother and lawyers getting contradicting information from various institutions where they went in their quest to retrieve the body. “They're driving us around in circles and covering their tracks,” Navalny's spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, said on Saturday.

“Everything there is covered with cameras in the colony. Every step he took was filmed from all angles all these years. Each employee has a video recorder. In two days, there has been not a single video leaked or published. There is no room for uncertainty here,” Navalny's closest ally and strategist Leonid Volkov said Sunday.

A note handed to Navalny's mother stated that he died at 2:17 pm Friday, according to Yarmysh. Prison officials told his mother when she arrived at the penal colony Saturday that her son had perished from “sudden death syndrome,” Ivan Zhdanov, the director of Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service reported that Navalny felt sick after a walk Friday and became unconscious at the penal colony in the town of Kharp, in the Yamalo-Nenets region about 1,900 km (1,200 miles) northeast of Moscow. An ambulance arrived, but he couldn't be revived, the service said, adding that the cause of death is still “being established.”

Source : Over 400 detained in Russia as country mourns the death of Alexei Navalny, Putin's fiercest foe

[mariacallous]

Police arrested politician Dmitry Savelyev outside Russia’s Federation Council building on Friday after the upper chamber’s lawmakers agreed to lift his senatorial immunity at the General Prosecutor’s request. 

Savelyev is suspected of ordering an “acquaintance” to kill a businessman in August 2023 for reasons of “personal animosity.” Savelyev allegedly offered $100,000 for the murder. His intermediary reportedly offered the contract to a former guard in Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service, but that man reported the plot to the Federal Security Service. Officials then staged the killing, and Savelyev paid the reward, believing the murder was successful. The newspaper Kommersant reports that Savelyev’s target was a business partner named “Ionov” who allegedly embezzled money from their company.

Savelyev maintains his innocence and says the charges against him are “fabricated.” 

Dmitry Savelyev has served in the Federation Council since 2016 as a senator representing Russia’s Tula region. His current term expires in September 2024. Savelyev is also a member of United Russia’s regional party presidium in Tula. Before joining the Federation Council, he served as a deputy in the State Duma for 17 years. Before joining the parliament’s lower house, Savelyev worked as an executive at Lukoil and was the president of the state-controlled oil pipeline company Transneft.

[afaankhan]

Alexei Navalny, Russian politician who opposed Putin to the end, has died in prison

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MOSCOW — Alexei Navalny, Russia's most prominent political opposition figure, has died in a remote Russian prison at age 47.News of Navalny's death came Friday from the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, above the Arctic Circle.

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Munich, GermanyCNN — The what is known, but the how may never be clear. It is the why that is already the largest question, after the untimely death of Alexey Navalny. We don’t know whether the Kremlin had a hand in his death, but they certainly failed in their duty of care of their most famous prisoner.

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[shattered-pieces]

People in russian prisons tortured for refusing to fight the war in Ukraine

Torture for refusing to fight. In the Dimitrovgrad prison, employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Ulyanovsk Region torture prisoners in order to force them to sign a supposedly "voluntary" contract with the Russian Defense Ministry to participate in the "SVO" (war).

"Good afternoon, Vladimir. Relatives of prisoners of Dimitrovgrad prison are asking you for help. Baldin (former head of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the UO) was replaced by Stanislav Valerievich Akimov, who, under torture and humiliation, forces prisoners to sign a contract for the SVO. He openly announces, together with the leadership of Dimitrovgrad Prison, that the order was received from Moscow. On 10/30/2024, the prisoners were beaten for refusing to go to war. Unable to withstand the torture and abuse, some prisoners cut open their necks, arms and stomachs in order to attract the attention of prosecutors. On 10/30/24, in the evening after the beatings, the prisoners were taken out of Dimitrovgrad prison. Some are in the EPKT IK-10 in Dimitrovgrad, some are in the hospital at IK-3 in Dimitrovgrad. Convicts have their money stolen from their personal accounts, food, cigarettes, warm clothes, even bath accessories, the employees are involved in the theft. At the same time, the FSIN employees themselves say, "We have to do all this, because if you don't go, they'll send us to the "meat"," the employees themselves are afraid. Akimov S.V. was given instructions especially regarding people of Caucasian nationality. They are insulted and mocked, saying "DON", they are told "you are TikTokers", although citizens of other countries, namely Turkey, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia - all openly say "We are against this war and this is not our war, we are not going to die for you", this causes even more aggression. Akimov S.V. and the head of the Dimitrovgrad prison receive bonuses at the expense of convicts who signed up "for SVO", each employee of the Dimitrovgrad prison, IK-10, IK-3 receives incentives for sending "to SVO" or for the destruction of those who are AGAINST the war. All our appeals receive formal replies, and this is followed by an even more cruel punishment, beating the head on the floor, while the FSIN employees shout for the video recorder to record "CONVICTED PERSON, DO NOT INJURE YOURSELF!", and this is very little. They beat them so much that the convicts can't take it anymore and cut themselves or even beg to kill them. But no, they need a body, even if it's sick and barely walking, but a body for the front! Help us, Vladimir. Nobody needs us or our families. Help the guys with publicity, those who are going through hell for their opinion and position." Attention to the UN and those authorized to stop such things. It is obvious that torture for refusing to fight is inhumane and criminal. Gulagunett@gmail.com for reports of human rights violations.

https://t.me/antigulag1/174