Barbed wire. Photo: Yelena Sineok, Yuga.ru

14 December 2018, 10:24

Natives of Chechnya and Dagestan complain to the ECtHR about torture in Omsk colony

The convicts serving their sentences at a correctional facility (colony) in Omsk have complained to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) about torture and harassment. There are four natives of Chechnya and two – from Dagestan among them.

Advocate Vera Goncharova has reported that after the riots broke out at the high security colony in October, a special regime was introduced there. Visits of relatives, parcels and money transfers were prohibited for the inmates.

Also, advocates could not see their clients for three weeks.

"Apti Akiev has spent a year and two months at the colony and faced harassments and pressure there," Ms Okushko has stated.

"They took me into a cell, where they turned on loud music ... Then, they threw me on a mattress, drove my arms behind my back and began beating my heels with an iron pipe ... They hung me up by the pipe with my hands roped behind my back and continued beating me," said Akiev.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on December 14, 2018 at 03:21 am MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.

Author: Tatyana Gantimurova Source: CK correspondent

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