penal colony Archives - Euromaidan Press

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Russian War Crimes

Freed medic: Russians raped girls as young as 14 in Ukraine prisons

Separate cells to rape young women, medieval torture instruments, and burning prisoners alive: after one year in captivity, a Ukrainian medic who treated torture victims details the horrors in Russian prisons

byChristine Chraibi

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Ukrainian pastor endures Russian captivity and comes home stronger

Pastor Anatoliy Voloshyn, who was among the 130 Ukrainians exchanged on March 7, 2023 has finally returned home.…

byChristine Chraibi

Screen capture of video materials documenting torture and sexual abuse of prisoners by officials in the Russian federal penal system acquired and published by the GULAGU.Net human rights group.

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Russians now fear their own government more than they fear a world war, Schulmann says

The recent coverage of the system of torture and rape in Russian penal institutions has had two important…

byPaul A. Goble

The Moscow Kremlin seen through iron bars (Image: Ilya Yashin / rosbalt.ru)

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The system of torture and rape in Russian prisons was imposed by Moscow, GULAGU.Net activist says

Vladimir Osechkin, head of the Gulagu.net project which has provided video tape confirmation of torture in Russian prisons,…

byPaul A. Goble

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Prisons central to Putin regime and films of torture in them a major political problem

Prisons and even their reputation for brutality are an important support for the Putin regime because Russians do…

byPaul A. Goble

4 minute read

GULAGU.Net exposes systemic torture and rape of prisoners in Russia; regime responds with investigations and denial of service attack on portal

The portal GULAGU.Net (“No to the GULAG” – a volunteer project against corruption and torture in Russia) has…

byPaul A. Goble

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Russia’s penal reforms point to return of ‘renewed’ GULAG, Novaya Gazeta says

Moscow has taken great pride in the fact that the number of Russians incarcerated in its penal system…

byPaul A. Goble

Tortures by Russian police (Image: akirama.com)

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‘Putin’s GULAG more horrible than Stalin’s,’ researchers say

Many people of good will around the world have been horrified by the case of Rizvan Ibragimov who…

byPaul A. Goble

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Ukrainian prisoner Oleksandr Kolchenko meets with mother

Oleksandr Kolchenko from Crimea, who is held prisoner in Russia, met with his mother for three days. This…

byRadio Liberty

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Ukrainian political prisoner Kolchenko refuses to ask Russian court for pardon

Oleksandr Kolchenko from Crimea, who was illegally convicted in the Russian Federation, does not intend to ask for…

byUkrainian media sources