The Gulagu.net project has published new videos with torture of prisoners in the regional tuberculosis hospital No. 1 of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Saratov region (OTB-1). The video shows six cases of rape of convicts. Also, human rights activists named more than 10 FSB and FSIN officers who oversaw the torture. The description for the video says that the prisoners-“activists” tortured those who refused to cooperate with the administration of the colonies.
“Torture and rape of the capo
According to the head of the Gulagu.net project, Vladimir Osechkin, the “activists” transmitted the video with the facts of rape on video recorders to the management of OTB-1, after which the head of the tuberculosis hospital Pavel Gatsenko forwarded these files with the stamp “Secret” to the FSIN and FSB with a report on the conducted “special action “On” discrediting the object of development. ” “After that, FSIN and FSB operatives either recruited the raped and used them as undercover agents / confidants, or humiliated them among the prisoners, disclosing the fact of rape and, thereby, humiliating a person to the lowest social status according to the Gulag internal prison hierarchy,” it is reported in description.
In addition, Gulagu.net reports that, through the special services, torture in OTB-1 was supervised by the deputy head of the OSB of the UFSIN Yuri Vdovin and the head of the “M” department of the UFSB Damir Yambaev, through the GOU FSIN torture OTB-1 was supervised by the deputy head of the Main operational department of the Federal Penitentiary Service Anton Efarkin and Head of the GOU FSIN Yevgeny Gnedov, who coordinated all his actions with the direct supervisor of the GOU, First Deputy Director of the FSIN of Russia, Lieutenant General Anatoly Rudym.
Anton Efarkin, whom Gulagu.net calls one of the curators of torture, was appointed acting head of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Saratov Region on October 19. According to the head of Gulagu.net, Vladimir Osechkin, Efarkin was urgently seconded to “resolve the issue” by intimidating witnesses to the torture and the victims themselves. Head of the “M” department of the FSB Directorate Damir Yambayeva previously called a possible participant in the raider seizure of the Saratov brick factory.
In early October, the Gulagu.net project reported that it had more than 40 GB of video, documents and photos at its disposal. These files testify to cases of mass torture in Russian penitentiary institutions. The inmates were raped and beaten, and they extorted money and information with the help of torture. Vladimir Osechkin said that he received a video from a former prisoner-programmer Sergei, who “was beaten and tortured himself, and then they decided to use it as a professional.”
After publications in the media, the Department of the Investigative Committee for the Saratov Region opened a criminal case under the article on violent acts of a sexual nature committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy. The head of the Saratov Federal Penitentiary Service resigned.