In the Vologda SIZO, they reported on the pre-New Year competitions in throwing boots. Earlier, the human rights activist said that people are being tortured there.

The management of the Vologda SIZO-3 told reporters about the preparations for the New Year. There they organized a competition in throwing felt boots for the prisoners. According to representatives of the prison administration, twenty-two convicts took part in the tournament. Writes about this Sota.

“Each participant was given three attempts, and it turned out that throwing a felt boot was a rather difficult exercise,” the SIZO leadership said. – The difficulty consisted not only in the range of the throw, but also in the ability to throw a felt boot along a straight trajectory, because he, like a boomerang, now and then strove to fly away to the side.

In February 2021, human rights activist Grigory Winter spoke about beatings and torture in this pre-trial detention center. He was there for a month on charges of spreading allegedly “false” information about the pandemic among prisoners and insulting the authorities during a search. informs “Memorial”.

“Four people twisted me – 2 wrapped their hands behind my back, kicked me on my knees, and a third person stepped on my back to keep me in this position,” Winter told about the conditions of detention in SIZO-3. – I continued to resist and then the employees of the pre-trial detention center piled me on my right side and very much bent me in the lower back, which made me suffocate. I began to shout that I was suffocating, then Bobrov or a person standing next to me (I can’t say for sure) stepped on my neck with his foot in the boot and pressed hard on it.

Considering that I have atherosclerosis of both carotid arteries (25-35% of the vascular lumen is occupied by sclerotic plaques), I lost consciousness. While I was unconscious, I was shaved with a typewriter. The staff could not remove the gold ring from my left hand, because I haven’t taken it off for more than 10 years, Bobrov came to me and said: “Tomorrow we will take off your ring, if necessary, we will cut off your finger.” (…) An employee with the inscription “Duty” first hit me in the chest with his fist, then in the face and so on several times – now in the chest, now with his palm across the face. (…) Suddenly someone struck from behind in the left leg with an electric shock. I fell near the outer wall of the lobby. It turned out to be an employee with a cigarette. He ran up and hit me 2 or 3 more times, after which, when I tried to get up, with all my strength he hit me with his ankle on the left shin. As a result of this blow, a deep abrasion was formed (now there is a scar) and the jeans got wet with blood. “

Earlier, it was decided to please the prisoners of the SIZO-1 of the Novosibirsk region with a New Year’s action. Mobile operator Zonatelecom in the mailing list with the image of the shocked Santa Claus reported that on New Year’s holidays the cost of correspondence between prisoners and loved ones will be cheaper. This detention center is similarly known for reports of inmates and their families of torture and degrading conditions of detention.