Torture of prisoners is “a problem not only for Russia.” So Russian President Vladimir Putin answered at the final press conference to a question from Ksenia Sobchak about his attitude to the videos published by human rights defenders about torture and rape in colonies.
Sobchak asked Putin if he was aware that, according to a number of sources, the head of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service for the Irkutsk Region, Leonid Sagalakov, could have had anything to do with torture, and whether Putin had developed an “emotional attitude” to information about torture in prisons.
Putin replied that torture is used in many countries, including Europe and the United States. “Probably, there are countries where everything looks very blissful. But there are a lot of places in France and the United States that do not exist even in third world countries, ”he said.
Putin also recalled that after the publication of the video archive with torture, 17 criminal cases were opened and called on to “wait and figure out” the situation. At the same time, in his opinion, it is necessary “to rely on a conscientious and full-fledged investigation.” “It should be clear to everyone that punishment for these offenses is inevitable,” he concluded.
Recall that after the scandal with the publication of a video about torture in Russian colonies, Putin dismissed the director of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Alexander Kalashnikov, and appointed Arkady Gostev, deputy head of the Russian Interior Ministry at that time, to replace him.
A couple of days ago, human rights defenders published on the Internet another video archive with torture of prisoners… According to the Gulagu.net project, these are fragments of the “secret video archive of the FSB / FSIN” received by human rights activists the day before. Published “less than 1% of what we have,” say human rights activists.
Presumably, the video demonstrates what was happening in OTB-1 in Krasnoyarsk. The video archive contains more than 100 gigabytes, the materials have already been sent to the European Parliament and the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture.
Source: Rosbalt

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