"Gulagu.net" project coordinator states his kidnapping

Unidentified persons kept Anton Drozdov, the coordinator of the project "Gulagu.net" and a member of the Committee for Civil Rights, in their apartment for four days. The project is engaged, among other things, in problems of human rights violations in jails of Southern Russia.

According to Drozdov, he was kidnapped four days ago after a meeting a man, who had promised to provide him with some information about the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN).

Drozdov suspects that he was poisoned with some potent drugs, because he cannot recollect how he occurred in the kidnappers' apartment, the website "Open Russia" reports.

Vladimir Osechkin, the manager of the "Gulagu.net" project, went to the police demanding to conduct a check of Drozdov's kidnapping. According to Mr Osechkin, on October 18, Drozdov called him and said that he was in some apartment, where he was kept by force.

Earlier, Anton Drozdov stated about attempts to obstruct the inquiry into the death on November 20, 2015, of the convict Dmitri Batyrev in Colony No. 1 in Kalmykia.

According to the authors of the project, Drozdov had also addressed to the Director of the FSIN asking to check the information about the beating up of prisoners in Kabardino-Balkaria; to oblige the Volgograd Regional Department of the FSIN to render medical aid to some convicted woman; and to appoint a check of service violations of the staff of SIZO-1 (pre-trial prison) of Krasnodar.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.