Shocking leaked footage shows inmates suffering horrors in Putin's 'rape jails'
Shocking new footage has emerged appearing to reveal the terrifying conditions inside Russia's "torture conveyor belt" jails where inmates are allegedly raped and mutilated.
The new video allegedly shows prisoners being terrorized and being subjected to unspeakable torment in President Vladimir Putin's jails. It features at least five inmates being urinated on, raped, and violated with blunt objects. The clip is the latest in a series recorded by a Belarussian man jailed in Saratov, who leaked it to campaigners Gulagu.net. The abuse took place in OTB-1, a prison in the Saratov region close to the border with Kazakhstan, according to the group. “We continue our independent investigation against the conveyor belt of torture in the institutions of the Federal Penitentiary Service," Vladimir Osechkin, who spearheads the group, wrote on its website.
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According to Gulagu, dozens of rapists were employed at the prison hospital in order to provide justification if their presence was questioned. Meanwhile, their actual job entailed the routine sexual abuse of inmates as part of a “criminal conspiracy” operating within the prison system. The assaults were filmed and the footage was sent to security services so it could be archived and later used as blackmail.
This comes shortly after Gulagu revealed a disturbing video showing a man in the nude wailing in agony as he's tied to a bed and abused with a mop handle at a tuberculosis hospital in the jail. The footage was obtained by Sergei Savelyev, who was reportedly used by the authorities to collate torture videos filmed on prison-issued camcorders. The IT programmer was allegedly "beaten and tortured himself” before being deployed as a “professional” to file the collection of videos from several regions. Savelyev made copies of the material and carried it out of Russia after his release as he sought political asylum in the West.
According to Osechkin, prisoners "themselves become part of the torture machine" by snitching on other inmates or by signing false testimonies prepared by investigators. It is claimed that the footage has led to the resignation of the head of Russia’s FSIN prison service. Tanya Lokshina, of Human Rights Watch, noted that her organization could not verify the videos, but admitted that the footage “gave grounds for strong concern.” “The problem of torture in Russian penitentiaries is very acute and the government is not doing enough to ensure effective investigation, security of victims and whistleblowers, and accountability for perpetrators,” she said.
It's worth noting that Russian prisons have a reputation for their brutality, with reports surfacing earlier this year detailing how inmates were tortured by electrocution and had clamps attached to their genitals. Meanwhile, it emerged that a Putin-backed sadist dubbed 'The Maniac' mutilated prisoners with surgical tools at a facility in war-torn Ukraine.
Justice for Peace in Donbas, an alliance of 17 Ukrainian human rights organizations, and local media revealed The Maniac's identity as Serhiy Konoplytsky. In a statement to The Sun in February, the Centre for Civil Liberties (CCL), based in Kyiv, said there were nearly 270 people, including hundreds of civilians, locked up in these dungeons without facing any charges. Meanwhile, prisoners have also spoken of the horrific torture they underwent in the facility, including witnessing other victims being beaten to death. The newspaper reported how sounds of screams were piped through speakers in the prison as some inmates were stripped naked and made to sleep on wooden pallets beneath blinding lights.
Having said that, there is no evidence to suggest the torture is being directly orchestrated by the Russian regime.