The system of torture of prisoners in the colonies was identified by employees of the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) of Ukraine, the agency’s press service reported on May 29.
“Intimidation and beatings” They were captured on video. This happened in the Bozhkovskaya correctional colony number 16, located in the Poltava region. Criminal cases were opened there against several IK employees.
The State Bureau of Investigation has information that the convicts were subjected “strict admission procedure”, which was filmed on camera. If the prisoners refuse “They hit me with their hands, with their feet, with rubber batons, with sticks”and “they twisted their arms”.
One of the victims received a total of more than 200 blows. The SBI clarified that the examination demonstrated the authenticity of the videos, some of which were published in the Ukrainian media.
“The requirements include not only total obedience and the obligation to comply with the rules of the colonial regime. Furthermore, in almost all the “red” zones it is immediately proposed to cover the “needs” of the neighborhood with half the salary they will receive working outdoors.”said one of the victims.
“The needs of the colony”As it turned out, they were “pocket” the head of the colony and his deputy for operational work, clarified one of the prisoners. They tortured those who refused to comply with the demands.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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