There was a riot in correctional colony No. 10 in the Perm region. This was reported by local human rights activist and journalist Oksana Asaulenko and the publication 59.RU.
According to Asaulenko, the riot occurred last week — it was suppressed with the help of a special unit of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Perm Territory, which is engaged in suppressing riots and preventing hostage-taking in colonies.</p>» data-type=»hint» data-slate-custom=»{"body»:"<p>Special unit of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Perm Territory, which is engaged in suppressing riots and preventing hostage-taking in colonies.</p>" ,"isCreated":false}»>special forces «Bear», FSIN officers from IK-37 were also called to help. 59.RU wrote that the source who confirmed the information about the riot spoke with an employee of this colony.
As the human rights activist said, the riot began in the premises of strict conditions of detention; prisoners broke communication plugs, video cameras and locks. The troublemakers were placed in isolation and there is no contact with them.
Source 59.RU reported that the riot was “with hostage taking.” “They hid it from Moscow against the backdrop of a recent seizure in another region, they tried to hush it up at the local level,” the publication quotes the interlocutor as saying. Asaulenko also writes that they tried to hide information about the riot in IK-10 from the federal authorities.
The Federal Penitentiary Service denied information about the riot in response to requests from state media. At the same time, the service’s press release noted that “several convicted persistent violators” who were kept in strict conditions, “as a sign of disagreement with the legal demands of the institution’s staff, damaged property” — in particular, they broke a video camera and two lamps.
According to the Federal Penitentiary Service, the prisoners tried to “put pressure on the management of the institution.” An explanatory conversation was held with the order-breakers, after which “the convicts stopped their illegal actions.” “Physical force and special means were not used against the convicts,” the department clarified.
Previously, Asaulenko reported on violations of the rights of prisoners in the Perm Territory — in particular, in IK-10. In March, the human rights activist wrote about the beating of prisoners under strict conditions of detention, and a month before that, about how the acting head of the colony, Mikhail Pushin, took personal belongings, clothes, shoes and towels from the convicts. According to Asaulenko, the administration of penal colony 10 regularly provokes prisoners to violate order, imposes illegal disciplinary sanctions on them, beats them and threatens them with violence.