“Baza claims that a member of the Human Rights Council (HRC) and the Public Monitoring Commission (POC) of Moscow, Eva Merkacheva, confirmed that she was aware of the appeal published by the Telegram channel. In a conversation with Novaya, the human rights activist only stated that during in my activities, in the original I saw only “similar” letters, and not the paper cited by Baza: “The pre-trial detention center employees showed us the letters that they intercepted.”…
However, the text of the letter about torture that appeared on Wednesday differs from classic appeals of this kind, Merkacheva notes.
“Usually all these “runs” are signed – there should be the name or nickname of some “authority”, “authority”, “supervisor”. And we see that this [опубликованная в интернете] the paper was not signed by anyone. Perhaps it was written and distributed by a simple prisoner; it could have been a grassroots initiative from someone who went through torture and is now in a downtrodden position.
The second option – since there are no signatures – it could be some kind of operational story invented by someone from the special services.
After all, those who are responsible for the “criminal order” in the zones are usually not afraid to sign,” says the human rights activist.
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And, judging by reports, the FSIN decided to take a desperate step – it released thief in law Zakhar Kalashov (Shakro, serving a large sentence) from the colony so that he could take part in a gathering condemning rape in places of detention.
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