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Russia Confirms Assault, Extortion Allegations in Europe’s Largest Prison

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Russia Confirms Assault, Extortion Allegations in Europe’s Largest Prison

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8/16/19
Russia’s prison authority has confirmed reports of abuse at Europe’s largest pre-trial detention center days after new video footage renewed concerns about conditions in Russia’s penitentiary system. Russia’s prison system has been under scrutiny since mid-2018, when revelations of torture set off nationwide inspections and dozens of legal cases. Last week, a prisoners’ rights NGO published video which showed inmates at the 4,000-person detention center in St. Petersburg beating a fellow prisoner with a stick.

“We’re confirming beatings of convicted persons, extortion and criminal irresponsibility, as well as abuse of power,” said Valery Boyarinev, the deputy head of Russia’s Federal Prison Service (FSIN), on Friday. The prison that Boyarinev was referring to has been dubbed “Kresty-2,” a $290-million remand prison that replaced the notorious 18th-century cross-shaped Kresty Prison in 2017. The head of FSIN, Gennady Korniyenko, will be briefed about the violations next week for further “procedural and staffing decisions,” Boyarinev was quoted as saying by the state-run RIA Novosti news agency.
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In the scheme of things, conditions within Russia's pre-trial holding facilities, also called remand prisons, are generally worse than in FSIN penitentiaries and prison colonies. Remand prisons hold individuals awaiting trial, not yet guilty but not yet innocent either. The facilities are usually old and decrepit, poorly funded, and staffed with corrupt guards seeking to extort the prisoners and their families.
 
The conditions under which Assange is being kept in Belmarsh in London make whatever the Russians are doing look like Boy Scouts by comparison.

The west has no room to criticize Russia.
 
Thoreau72 said:
The conditions under which Assange is being kept in Belmarsh in London make whatever the Russians are doing look like Boy Scouts by comparison.

The west has no room to criticize Russia.
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I believe russia has some bad prisons, I remember reading years ago about russia even shutting down prisons due to extreme corruption torture and lack of even the most basic human rights like starving prisoners or forcing prisoners to fight to the death with guards betting on it.
 
beerftw said:
I believe russia has some bad prisons, I remember reading years ago about russia even shutting down prisons due to extreme corruption torture and lack of even the most basic human rights like starving prisoners or forcing prisoners to fight to the death with guards betting on it.
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That would not surprise me in the least. I've never been in a Russian prison, but I did read about a third of The Gulag Archipelago many years. It was too depressing.

US prisons are probably more humane, but the treatment of Assange shows how corruption and politics can play in western prisons.

At least Putin let the girls from ***** Riot out in just a few years. If they had been imprisoned here, like Maria Butina, they would still be in prison.
 
Thoreau72 said:
That would not surprise me in the least. I've never been in a Russian prison, but I did read about a third of The Gulag Archipelago many years. It was too depressing.

US prisons are probably more humane, but the treatment of Assange shows how corruption and politics can play in western prisons.

At least Putin let the girls from ***** Riot out in just a few years. If they had been imprisoned here, like Maria Butina, they would still be in prison.
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From what I remember from a soldier in the us army who was russian(not sure they allow them anymore when he enlisted russia was not considered a hostile country) that russia has a 3 tiered prison system, one for the epic elite, the medium one for foreign prisoners or vip's who do not meet elite status, and a rock bottom system for everyone else who the govt does not have to worry about foreign relations with. So with them if you were a foreign national you would get a nicer prison out of fear of diplomatic issues, but if you were a russian citizen without any connections you would get a prison that makes americas worst look like a 5 start hotel.

If you were elite your prison was a country club and your imprisonment more for show than punishment.
 
beerftw said:
From what I remember from a soldier in the us army who was russian(not sure they allow them anymore when he enlisted russia was not considered a hostile country) that russia has a 3 tiered prison system, one for the epic elite, the medium one for foreign prisoners or vip's who do not meet elite status, and a rock bottom system for everyone else who the govt does not have to worry about foreign relations with. So with them if you were a foreign national you would get a nicer prison out of fear of diplomatic issues, but if you were a russian citizen without any connections you would get a prison that makes americas worst look like a 5 start hotel.

If you were elite your prison was a country club and your imprisonment more for show than punishment.
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That is similar to our own system, and part of it is logical. Predators and dangerous individuals are classified and treated differently from white collar criminals like doctors and lawyers. We keep prison "camps" for the latter class, and prisons for others.

When the random legislator is convicted of some petty crime, he is sent to a camp.
 
Thoreau72 said:
The conditions under which Assange is being kept in Belmarsh in London make whatever the Russians are doing look like Boy Scouts by comparison.

The west has no room to criticize Russia.
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Let us know when Assange complains of being tortured in Belmarsh.
 
Rogue Valley said:
He has a lawyer. Can the lawyer not speak?
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His lawyers and friends HAVE spoken, and described his precarious health situation under the "civilized" government of Britain.

HE has not spoken.

Anybody familiar with his case knows how illegal his detention is.

Have you been curious enough to watch this one? : Sex, Lies and Julian Assange - Four Corners

Likely not. Likely you are more interested in a blissful existence than in seeking knowledge.
 
Thoreau72 said:
His lawyers and friends HAVE spoken, and described his precarious health situation under the "civilized" government of Britain.

HE has not spoken.

Anybody familiar with his case knows how illegal his detention is.

Have you been curious enough to watch this one? : Sex, Lies and Julian Assange - Four Corners

Likely not. Likely you are more interested in a blissful existence than in seeking knowledge.
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Illegal detention =/= torture.
 
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