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| Prisoners staged a riot in the Vladikavkaz colony |
| 2021-10-16 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] About six hundred inmates riot at a maximum security penal colony in North Ossetia over a conflict with prison officials, sources said. The incident took place in correctional colony No. 1 in Vladikavkaz. Almost six hundred convicts staged a riot, they smashed surveillance cameras and internal doors in the colony, the National Guard forces are being pulled to the correctional facility, and neighboring streets are cordoned off, reported today, citing sources from the Telegram channel Baza. According to preliminary data, the incident began with a conflict involving two prisoners with prison staff, the report says. The unrest in the colony was suppressed, RIA Novosti reported with reference to the representative of the emergency services. As a result of the riots, several people were injured, an Interfax source quoted. According to preliminary data, the conflict occurred due to the disagreement of individual prisoners to comply with the regime established in the colony, the report says. There is no information about the riots in the colony on the website of the US Penitentiary Service in North Ossetia, as of 22.10 Moscow time today. More Prisoners who staged a riot complained about torture in the Vladikavkaz colony [KavkazUzel] Complaints from convicts from a colony in Vladikavkaz were sent to the hotline to combat torture in prisons under the Russian Ministry of Justice and the Public Monitoring Commission. As the "Caucasian Knot " wrote , today sources have reported about riots in a strict regime colony in North Ossetia. According to various sources, between 200 and 600 convicts staged a riot because of a conflict with the correctional staff. The riots were suppressed, there are casualties, sources said. The prisoners who staged the riot are blocked, the perimeter of the colony is cordoned off, sources said. The situation is under control, Tamerlan Tzgoev, Ombudsman for Human Rights in North Ossetia, assured. "The hotline for prisoners and their relatives that has started to work today began to receive appeals from Vladikavkaz, where, according to media reports, a riot has begun in one of the colonies," the executive secretary of the Moscow POC Alexei Melnikov quoted TASS today. The relatives of some of the prisoners came to the colony, the report says. |
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