A witness for the prosecution in the case of a riot in the Angar colony told about torture

Maksym Galyaev, a witness for the prosecution in the case of a riot in the Angar colony in 2020, refused to testify and told about torture and rape in the Irkutsk SIZO-1, “Irk. City” reports.

At the court session in the case of mass riots, Galyaev stated that after the riot in IK-15 in Angarsk, he was transported to Irkutsk, where prisoners working for the administration forced him to testify against the protesters.

“I ask that the testimony be declared inadmissible, I refuse it. I rewrote the testimony 30 times, I wrote in what nicknames and names I knew,” Galyaev said.

Protests by prisoners in IK-15 Angarsk took place in April 2020. In total, about 300 people were injured. The body of one dead prisoner was found under the rubble after a fire in the colony, Sibir.Realii reminds. In addition, the death of a prisoner in Voronezh was reported, who suffered a spinal fracture during the riots in the Angarsk colony, and was later transferred to Voronezh. FSIN denied these data.

After the riot, many prisoners were taken to other colonies in the region and to SIZO-1. There, according to their statements, confessions in the organization of the rebellion were forced out of them by torture and torture.