The Human Rights Council has finally published its report on its visit to Penal Colony No. 7 in Karelia, where Dadin was tortured (or is still being tortured?), while serving time for holding one-person pickets.
Read it — it’s not very long and it’s written in plain language.
The entire report is written in an impartial, “non-confrontational” tone, but the main conclusions are obvious:
The prison administration and the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) as a whole refused to cooperate and concealed (or destroyed) the video recordings.
Since there are no video recordings, it is now impossible to confirm or refute Dadin’s statements with 100% certainty. Dadin has marks on his wrists that may indicate he was suspended, as he describes.
The torture described by Dadin has been described in the same detail by other prisoners, including people who do not know Dadin at all and know nothing about these scandals or publications. Former inmates also confirm these exact methods of torture.
Overall, what is going on there is insane fascist shit. Even in the small things. Some idiotic practice of forcing Muslims to eat pork cutlets, and when they refuse, torturing them.
What is that even for? Has society and the state really set FSIN the task of making Muslims eat pork? How does that contribute to rehabilitating an offender? It does not even contribute to punishment — people will come out of that colony as completely broken psychopaths.
What’s striking is that the federal FSIN, and in general the whole Karelian mafia covering up torture — the prosecutor’s office and the Investigative Committee — have chosen the tactic that the best defense is offense.
The Investigative Committee says that the torture allegations have not been confirmed.
The prosecutor’s office found no violations.
FSIN placed another inmate in Dadin’s cell, who provoked a fight and then filed a complaint against him.
Today FSIN is already saying that it will open a libel case against Dadin.
They want to extend this man’s sentence for publicly telling the truth about them.
It is clear why this is happening. Any episode described in the Human Rights Council report — whether Dadin’s or someone else’s — should lead to large-scale inspections of FSIN, the Investigative Committee, and the prosecutor’s office, followed by criminal cases against the officials involved.
The alternative is simple: either Dadin and everyone else are all lying without coordinating with one another, or the leadership of Penal Colony No. 7 and half of Karelia’s FSIN end up in prison. So this is really a matter of saving their own skin.
I’ll say it again: not a single word from FSIN can be trusted. It’s that simple. Produce the video recordings. All of them. If they exist, we trust the recordings. If they have “not been preserved,” then we trust Dadin.