Ex-leaders of IK-9 received 7 years in prison for beating a prisoner
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The court in Petrozavodsk sentenced the former head of IK-9, Ivan Savelyev, and his deputy, Ivan Kovalev, to seven years in prison under the general regime in the case of the beating of a prisoner. The lawyer of the victim, Roman Masalev, informed “Mediazone” about this.
Savelyev and Kovalev were found guilty of exceeding official powers with the use of violence.
The state prosecution requested eight and a half years of imprisonment for the former leaders of the Karelian colony.
The case against Saveliev and Kovalev was initiated in 2019 after the publication of a video in which, according to the investigation, they beat a detainee in the sanitary section of the SHIZO in 2014.
In April 2020, the court arrested Saveliev, and Kovalev was placed under house arrest. However, already in the autumn of the same year, the measure of suppression was replaced by a ban on certain actions.
The publication “Mediazona” and the TV channel “Nastoyastchee vremya” published a text about torture in colony No. 9 in Petrozavodsk. After that, the head of the colony, Ivan Saveliev, sued the journalists. In relation to the correspondent Alla Konstantinova and the convicted Ruben Pogosyan, who told the journalist about the torture, Savelyov tried to open a criminal case for defamation, but the SC refused to do so.
Saveliev was removed from his post after a video of a prisoner being beaten appeared on the Internet. The head of the colony and his deputy, Ivan Kovalev, were recognized on video by journalists and former inmates interviewed by Mediazona.
- In 2021, the founder of Gulagu.net, Vladimir Osechkin, and his colleagues published two parts of the FSIN departmental archive with records of torture of prisoners. The first part mainly concerned torture in the Saratov prison hospital, the second – violence against prisoners in Krasnoyarsk IK-17. After the publication of a video of torture in Saratov, the Investigative Committee opened several criminal cases, the head of the FSIN Alexander Kalashnikov and his deputy Anatoly Yakunin left their posts.
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