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Whistleblower on prison torture: 'I was always afraid of getting caught'

A former inmate of a Saratov penal colony, IT-specialist Syarhey Savelyeu (Sergej Saveljev) from Belarus, collected mass scale video footage of torture of prisoners in Russian camps. He fled the country and asked for political asylum in France. Russia has put him on a wanted list, for disclosing information that may 'harm state security'.

by Mike Eckel
Torture in prison no exception in Russia

The lawyer who published the gruesome torture video in a penal colony in Yaroslavl had to flee Russia. But this case is not an
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Torture is common practice in Russia's Gulag

Torture is common practice in the penal colonies of nowadays Gulag. Activist Ildar Dadin, emprisoned in Karelia, sent out an open letter. After
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