The Investigative Committee in Rostov-on-Don opened a case of abuse of office based on the fact that over 60 prisoners told about torture in the interregional tuberculosis hospital No. 19 (MOTB-19). This was reported on Saturday, November 6, by Mediazona.
According to Igor Omelchenko, chairman of the Rostov Public Monitoring Commission (POC), the case was opened back in September. On November 5, he was interrogated, because in the fall of 2020, the PMC told about a prisoner complaint that for more than 70 days he was kept tied to a bed in MOTB-19.
Death “by negligence” after months of bullying
“We took in the sample all the people who got there in the ILO. We interviewed a huge number of people. Someone admitted that it was. Torture, both moral, physical, and sexual, and what was not. Some refused to do it in writing. agreed in the end 61. On the list of 61 in the (Investigative) Committee, we know one more name, (it turns out) 62. This is all to whom such measures were applied, “Novaya Gazeta quotes Omelchenko.
A year ago, after the death of prisoner Aleksandr Kulikov, a criminal case was initiated at the ILO-19 under the article on causing grievous harm, resulting in death by negligence. Kulikov’s spine and four ribs were broken. In addition, in June last year, prisoner Roman Mikhailov died in the same hospital due to sepsis and phlegmon of the lumbar region. The human rights activist indicated that he was tied to a bed for several months and was not fed.
“They threatened him there, and did a lot of bad things. And as a result, the surgeon came, turned him over and cut off his profit (dead skin due to bedsores) with scissors, he screamed and screamed there. And put it back. He lay there for many days, more than a month. , a toilet for yourself, this summer. And, of course, an infection got there. And he died of sepsis, “Omelchenko said.
Allegations of torture in Saratov
We will remind, recently more than 400 prisoners reported torture, beatings, rape and extortion of money in Saratov correctional colony No. 3 and the regional prison tuberculosis hospital No. 1 (OTB-1). The shocking footage was sent to the public by eyewitnesses from Saratov OTB-1, where instead of treatment, patients were tortured, beaten and raped. In early October, the Gulagu.net project began publishing videos of torture received from a former prisoner of OTB-1, programmer Sergei Savelyev. After being released on parole, he managed to take out a video archive with torture of prisoners from the correctional institution. After the publication, Savelyev himself went to France, where he asked for political asylum. In Russia, he was put on the wanted list.
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