Murder In an Anzhero-Sudzhensk Pretrial Detention Center
On September 7th, 2023, Matvey Chernyshev (born 1998) was rushed to an Anzhero-Sudzhensk hospital in an ambulance. He was brought from Pretrial Facility 4, presenting with severe head trauma in a comatose state. Three days later, on September 10th, Chernyshev passed away after undergoing trepanation and surgery to remove a hematoma from his brain.
How a torture case is being dismantled in an Irkutsk detention facility
Photo by Federal Investigative Committee of Russia On December 7th, during a regular court session regarding torture in an Angarsk pre-trial detention facility, Denis Poksuaev, who was participating as a victim in this case, recinded his earlier testimony. He allegedly named former co-workers at the facility, Dimitry Baroyan and his boss Vasily Lukovsky, under pressure […]
“They’re real people, they had their whole lives ahead of them”
In the town of Kineshma, located in Ivanovo region, the trial of the administration of Women’s Correctional Colony #3 is coming to an end, regarding an incident in which two convicts died while working in a sewer well. “Russia Behind Bars” is providing legal support for this case. In late June 2021, the heat exceeded […]
What awaits Brittney Griner in Russian penal colony?
US basketball player Brittney Griner has been sent to a Russian penal colony in a remote region south-east of Moscow to serve a nine-year jail term for illegal drug possession. She joins tens of thousands of Russian women behind bars – and no-one knows how long she will serve, as the US is keen to […]
Brittney Griner Is Headed to a Truly Horrific Place
Crowded barracks, limited access to health care, grueling labor and abusive inmates and staff — these are just some of the things that Brittney Griner, the WNBA star sentenced to nine-and-a-half years over less than a gram of cannabis oil in a vape cartridge, could expect to find in a Russian penal colony, according to […]
Russian court orders detention and deportation of U.S. woman in assault case
RYAZAN, Russia, Nov 10 (Reuters) – A Russian court on Thursday ordered U.S. citizen Sarah Krivanek to be detained for 30 days before being deported to the United States in a case where she was imprisoned for almost 11 months on charges of assaulting her partner. The decision was taken at a hearing in the […]
Thousands of Russian Prisoners Choose a High Risk of Death as Mercenaries in Ukraine
Sentenced to two years’ imprisonment in the penal colony IK-7 in St. Petersburg, Andrey Yastrebov could not think of much else than how to get out. When the recruiters of PMC Wagner—Russia’s notorious private military company—showed up looking for volunteers, he took his chance. He signed up and became part of the first Wagner contingent […]
Jailed American Sarah Krivanek Writes from Russian Penal Colony: ‘My Soul Is in Torment’
PEOPLE has exclusively obtained four letters that 46-year-old American Sarah Krivanek addressed to loved ones back home, expressing concern for how she’ll return to the U.S. when her sentence ends.| By Juliet ButlerPublished on October 19, 2022 12:30 PM In letters sent to loved ones back home, jailed American Sarah Krivanek writes: “my soul is in torment.” Krivanek, […]
In the Ukraine war, a shadowy key player emerges: Russia’s private army of mercenaries
OCT. 5, 2022 BERLIN – As Russia suffers one devastating military setback after another in Ukraine, a key player in the conflict is stepping out of the shadows: the private army known as the Wagner Group. Despite the Kremlin’s longtime practice of publicly distancing itself from the paramilitary organization, Wagner mercenaries — who first emerged during Russia’s 2014 […]