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penal colony
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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
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.…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
‘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…
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…
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…