10 guards beat a locked prisoner – eju.tv

They pinned him to a table. They advance with patience, this is not a rapture of anger. A dozen officers from the Yaroslavl Prison in the Russian Volga region take turns beating Yevgeny Makarov a prisoner who undergoes methodical torture of the guards for at least 10 minutes. The detainee reported the case, but he was not heard . Only the video broadcast allowed to blame the people involved and trigger a wave of claims one year after the beating.

When Makarov saw that a letter from his mother had been posed by one of the uniforms, he reacted with an insult. " You will pay for it ," they replied. And they met ferocity.

The prisoner is immobilized at a table and suffers countless blows to the feet, arms and bad . It is clear that the goal is not to hurt him: it is to cause him pain that lasts for weeks, in which he can not stand upright . agitated, tired of giving so many blows and without listening to the clemency demands of the victim.

It is common for civil organizations in the country to report torture and humiliation in prisons, but it is also common that no action is taken in this regard. 19659003] However, the video and scandal in social networks put researchers on the ropes, which arrested six officers, three of whom pleaded guilty last week . In addition, 17 other employees were suspended

#Russian : Drachev is one of six prison guards, accused of torturing prisoner Yaroslavl Evgeny Makarov, who had been placed in detention. Makarov was filmed being beaten with batons and fists by prison guards. The video was published by the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta on July 20 pic.twitter.com/HsXZ1BbRlt

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" The group acted deliberately, in clear excess of their faculties and used violence against a prisoner ", summarize the researchers. Makarov was left with severely inflamed legs and with some infections of compressions suffered, according to his lawyer. In addition, he lost consciousness more than once.

The video was captured with a camera that the guards are forced to use, but only a year after the spread of the torture by the newspaper Novaya Gazeta .

Even the violence continues: the lawyer Irina Biryukova who received the video, said she had to leave the country after receiving threats from prison guards who did not are not identified.

Tatyana, Makarov's mother, said that he could not finish seeing the pictures because of the pain that they caused him and could not sleep well since then . " I still cry, when I go to bed, I see the faces of these guards and hear the groans of my son beating ," he told the BBC . the organization Amnesty International called on the authorities to act "immediately" to protect the lawyer, as well as to demand progress in the main investigation. "In the absence of a national mechanism to prevent torture, the criminal case against the torturers of Makarov would be an exception to the rule," they reported.