Three targets of rape on camera in the Russian system are named: Society: Russia: Lenta.ru
“Re-educate” a prisoner living according to the concepts of the thieves’ world and make him cooperate with the prison administration. another man. Such goals were named by human rights activist Marina Litvinovich in an interview with Lente.ru.
“With the help of sexual torture they are trying to achieve“ correction ”, to return a person from the criminal path to the“ true ”one. And “helps” to achieve not only through violence, but also further blackmail and manipulation – it helps. – A person after sexual assault has two paths. Either he becomes “lowered”, or begins to cooperate with the administration. This is the first reason for the use of torture. “
Extortion is more often carried out by other prisoners, threatening inmates with sexual violence. “But, of course, with the tacit consent or connivance of the administration,” Litvinovich said.
Finally, she considers the third option the most monstrous of all.
“It all starts with the fact that an investigator is a person belonging to another department. On you, on me, on anyone. For some politician, human rights activist, businessman, bandit. It doesn’t matter, says Litvinovich. – Then the investigator turns to the operatives working in the Federal Penitentiary Service. They, in turn, take the prisoner, and after torture, he tries to sign a statement that you once killed someone, and he was a witness. Or you stole something. Under torture, including sexual torture, a person is ready to sign a testimony against anyone. “
She noted that in this version there is a cohesion of a number of power structures – investigators, FSIN operatives.
“Of course, in the case of any criminal case in which testimony is obtained from a prisoner or former prisoner, we should immediately ring a bell and we must understand that they are most likely obtained under torture,” she concluded.
Earlier, human rights activists of the “Gulagu.net” project reported that. According to the founder of the project, Vladimir Osechkin, 40 gigabytes of video of torture by prisoners were filmed by officers of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) of Russia on official video recorders. After that, criminal cases were initiated, the situation was taken over by the Prosecutor General’s Office, the State Duma and the Federation Council.