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Belarusian citizen reporting on torture in Russian prisons seeks asylum in France
 Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.[Rusvesna] Belarusian Sergei Savelyev, who allegedly submitted videos of torture in Russian prisons for publication on the Internet, asked for political asylum in France, AFP claims after a conversation with Savelyev. Earlier, a video about sexual assault and torture of convicts appeared on YouTube. The Telegram channel Gulagu.net explained that these footage recorded at least four episodes of violence and torture, torture and humiliation of prisoners, which, according to the report, took place in the Regional Tuberculosis Hospital (OTB) No. 1 of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Saratov region. The UK opened a number of cases on sexual violence and abuse of power. Agence France-Presse does not provide evidence that Saveliev specifically collected and transferred these frames for publication, referring only to his words. The agency uses the general wording "the man who leaked the video" in relation to him. The former prisoner, a 31-year-old Belarusian, quotes from a conversation with which are quoted by "France-Presse", arrived in France through Turkey and Tunisia, since Friday he has been at the Paris Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport in the waiting area for asylum seekers. According to the agency, Savelyev was serving a sentence in a Saratov colony in a drug trafficking case. The agency writes that Saveliev, under the guise of servicing computers, quietly downloaded video files from prisons throughout Russia. Savelyev said that shortly before his release in February 2021, he managed to hide the media on which the data was registered near the release from prison. Earlier, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation said that the department had begun checking in the institutions of the penitentiary system of the Saratov region for the observance of the rights of convicts. The Federal Penitentiary Service announced the dismissal of the head of OTB No. 1, three more employees of the regional department of the department, and also sent documents for the dismissal of the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Saratov Region, Colonel of the Internal Service Alexei Fedotov. The press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin knows about the video of the rape of a prisoner in the Saratov region, the FSIN is dealing with this, if the authenticity of the materials is confirmed, this will become a pretext for a serious investigation. Posted by: badanov 2021-10-20 |
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