July 24, 2017 How the gulag Llves on in Russia's prison economy News Asia Europe Russia In Russia, running a prison is a business. The Soviet gulag may have transformed into Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN), but its essence arguably is unchanged. With 434 prisoners per 100,000 people, Russia has the highest incarceration rate in Europe. It’s 143 in the UK, 101 in France, a…
June 5, 2017 Russia : Russian Interior Ministry ordered to pay $1,200 to man tortured by police News Asia Europe Torture Violence Russia The Supreme Court of Tatarstan has ordered Russia’s Interior Ministry to pay 70,000 rubles ($1,200) to a man tortured in a police office, lawyer Andrey Suchkov told RAPSI on Monday.
May 22, 2017 Thinking Allowed: Russian prison visitors - prison boundaries News Asia Europe Social ties Russia Relatives of Russian Prisoners: Judith Pallot , Professor of the Human Geography of Russia at the University of Oxford talks to Laurie Taylor about her research into the experiences of the wives, mothers, girlfriends, daughters who, as relatives of Russia’s three-quarters of a million prisoners, ar…
April 12, 2017 Russia: more than 100 gay men 'sent to prison camps' in Chechnya News Asia Europe Russia Abuses allegedly included mean being taken outside and beaten several times a day, having their hands electrocuted and being forced to sit on bottles
March 10, 2017 Russia’s prison population hits all-time low News Asia Europe Russia The number of people in Russian penitentiary facilities has gone down to the lowest level since collapse of the USSR, the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) told TASS on the eve of the Penitentiary Day, marked on March 12. Back in 1879, Emperor Alexander II established the prison department.
February 13, 2017 Russia orders prison inmate on hunger strike to pay his own medical costs News Asia Europe Russia Rusia has ordered a prisoner to pay his own medical costs after he went on hunger strike over jail conditions, his lawyer said today, a move that could curb protests against poor treatment of convicts.
November 1, 2016 Russia : jailed activist alleges torture, threats in prison letter News Asia Europe Torture Russia A jailed Russian opposition activist has accused a prison warden of overseeing the systematic torture of inmates and of threatening to kill him, allegations made in a desperate letter to his wife that he asked her to publish to save his life.
November 1, 2016 Russia activist Ildar Dadin accuses prison of torture News Asia Europe Torture Russia Russian officials are investigating claims that a well-known opposition activist has been repeatedly beaten and threatened in prison. Ildar Dadin is serving two and a half years for a series of street protests. He told his lawyer that he had been strung up by his handcuffed wrists, had his head sho…
