The victim in a case of torture in an Irkutsk colony was transferred to a correctional facility in another region — Novaya Gazeta Evropa

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The victim in a case of torture in an Irkutsk colony was transferred to a correctional facility in another region — Novaya Gazeta Evropa

The Angarsk City Court of the Irkutsk Region decided to transfer Yevgeny Yurchenko, a victim of torture in penal colony No. 15, to a correctional facility in another region. This was reported by Eva Merkacheva, a member of the Human Rights Council, with reference to MK. In 2020, a riot broke out in the Angarsk colony in the Irkutsk Region: prisoners protested against torture by officers of the Federal Penitentiary Service. Later, many prisoners,…