During the debate in the Zavolzhsky District Court of Yaroslavl, the prosecutor requested three years in prison for Sergei Gusarin, Sergei Kuzmin and Vyacheslav Shashkin, who, being employees of the Yaroslavl IK-1, tortured prisoner Vazha Bochorishvili. Irina Biryukova, lawyer for the Public Verdict Foundation, told Mediazone about this.
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According to the Public Verdict, in court Biryukova did not agree with the deadlines requested by the prosecutor. In her opinion, the terms of imprisonment of IK-1 employees should be different: “In my opinion, the punishment for someone who inflicted more than 10 hits with a special device on the victim should be more severe than for the rest.”
In addition, the lawyer insisted that the security forces planned to beat the prisoner and tortured him «for the purpose of intimidation and humiliation.» As evidence of this version, she cited the excessive number of people who were in the room during the search of Bochorishvili, and the refusal to use a screen. «mz-publish-context-cite__image» alt=»1″ />Music in the 8th tube department. What is known about the torture in the Saratov prison hospital, photos of which were published by Gulagu.net
In February 2021, Novaya Gazeta and Public Verdict published a video of the torture of prisoners in 2016-2017. One of the prisoners on the tapes was Bochorishvili. He died from injuries sustained during torture. In a conversation with Mediazona, its representative Biryukova clarified that Gusarin and Shashkin kept the Georgian citizen on the table, and Kuzmin beat him with a rubber stick.
In March of this year, the Investigative Committee opened another criminal case on the death of Bochorishvili . It is connected with the provision of poor-quality medical care (paragraph «c» of part 2 of Article 238 of the Criminal Code).
Earlier, the Zavolzhsky District Court of Yaroslavl sentenced nine former employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service from three years to three years and four months in prison in the case of torture prisoner of the Yaroslavl IK-1 Abubakar Tsagalayev. Five of them had been sentenced to real terms two years earlier in the case of torturing another prisoner Yevgeny Makarov.