what's on the video and what's next

The Russian "Novaya Gazeta" published a video on which FSIN officers torture Yevgeny Makarov, a prisoner of IK-1 in the Yaroslavl region. The publication has caused widespread public outcry and outrage among users of social networks.

According to published information, the investigation committee launched a criminal case on the abuse of power. The Russian BBC service tells what happened

What's on the video?

A 10 minute recording of a portable video recorder (legally required for all employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service) was available at the Public Verdict Foundation. It was published by Novaya Gazeta

According to the publication, the video shows the events that took place on June 29, 2017 in the No. 1 penal colony of the Yaroslavl region.

The video was filmed in a spacious room with green walls. On the staggered desks in the center of the room, a man is lying on his stomach, his hands are handcuffed behind his back. According to Novaya Gazeta, it is the prisoner of the IK-1 Evgeny Makarov

Besides him, there are also more than ten other people in the room. Most of them in camouflage, there are also in plain clothes

Two of them hold Makarov 's hands on the back, others torture him alternately: beat the prisoner with batons on his heels, put him on his knees and beat on the face, then remove his pants and put him face down. Makarov during the screams beaten.

Makarov himself called the room in which he was beaten, "the educational work clbad," he says in his explanation of what happened, that the newspaper published. He also named the names of some members of the colony who, he said, were involved in the blows

Reactions to the video

The Russian inquiry committee, having studied the content of the video, has filed a complaint for abuse of authority. As specified in the regional department of the department, the case was brought under paragraph "a" of Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Excess of the l & # 39; authority with violence or with the threat of its use). region. "Based on the results of the audit, a decision will be made to bring the perpetrators to justice," said the administration.

The Presidential Human Rights Council requested information on torture in the Yaroslavl Colony in the TFR and the Prosecutor General's Office.

A pre-investigation investigation into the colony's request for torture more than a year ago resulted in the denial of criminal proceedings, according to the report of the HRO

. She contacted the head of the FSIN's Yaroslavl Department and promised to investigate the situation and punish the culprits if the news of Novaya Gazeta was confirmed, Interfax was informed in the press service of Moskalkova [19659005] "public verdict" lawyer Irina Biryukova. She arrived at the colony after learning that after the torture, the prisoner could not stand up and sank, she told the publication.

In connection with the incident, Biryukova appealed to the FSIN, the Court of Human Rights Court of Human Rights (ECHR) inquiry commission. The ECHR asked Russia for information about what had happened to Makarov, but the Russian side responded that there was no reason to initiate criminal proceedings. The CGP had already checked the information on Makarov's torture. violated the internal regulations of IK-1 and the employees of the colony acted lawfully.

"At 1250 o'clock [сотрудники колонии] … approached cell number 6 and demanded that convicted Makarov EA leave the cell." Condemned Makarov EA responded with a categorical refusal, thus violating Article 16 of the Regulation of the internal order of correctional institutions, "reads the decision of investigation to refuse to open a criminal case.

It also states that during the internal audit of the Federal Penitentiary Service two colony employees were also checked on a polygraph, and information on beating Makarov "did not find his confirmation."