The Angarsk City Court arrested Ruslan Lemov, the victim in the case of sexualized violence in the Irkutsk pre-trial detention center-1. Human rights activist Pyotr Kuryanov told Siberian Express about this.
Lemov was supposed to be released from prison on October 9. Now he is accused in the case of mass riots (Article 212 of the Criminal Code) that occurred in Irkutsk Correctional Colony No. 15 in April 2020. After them, Lemov and other prisoners were transferred to the Angarsk pre-trial detention center-6 and the Irkutsk pre-trial detention center-1. Many of them were tortured and forced to take the blame for organizing the riot.
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Kuryanov emphasized that the investigation had no questions for Lemov before.
“This is outright revenge for taking an active position in the torture case. Lemov is fundamentally seeking in court to release materials on bringing to criminal responsibility the pre-trial detention center employees who came into the cell for two days and saw him tied up and beaten, but did not take any action,” the human rights activist commented on his arrest.
According to Kuryanov, Lemov’s accusation is based on the testimony of “activists collaborating with the administration,” one of whom other former prisoners of IK-15 cannot remember.
“They say this didn’t happen in the camp,” the human rights activist concludes.
In April 2020, a riot occurred in the Angarsk correctional colony No. 15. As human rights activists said, it was caused by the beating of one of the prisoners. After this, the convicts were accused of disorganizing the work of a correctional facility and rioting.
Ruslan Lemov was transferred to Irkutsk pre-trial detention center-1, where, as Siberian Express writes, he was tied up with sheets and beaten, demanding to confess to organizing mass riots in IK-15. The case of a prisoner on sexualized violence (Part 2 of Article 132 of the Criminal Code) in the detention center is being considered by the Kuibyshevsky District Court of Irkutsk.