2023-11-12 23:03:00
Vladimir Osechkin, a Russian opponent who is exiled in France, shared photos and videos regarding the torture suffered by prisoners in the prisons of the Eurasian country. In that sense, the man expressed his desire to “do everything possible to stop other Russians, who together with (Vladimir) Putin they are killing and torturing thousands“.
Osechkin fled Russia in 2015 and is currently living under police protection as an enemy of the state following exposing the Kremlin’s prison practices. In 2011, the human rights activist created the website Gulagu.netwhere he publishes audiovisual pieces of rapes, torture and beatings of inmates.
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In statements to the British media The Sunthe opponent described his country’s prison system as “the conveyor belt of torture”. One of the videos she shared shows prisoners lying on the ground handcuffed, while officers stand in front of them and beat them, allegedly for no reason. Another image depicts a man tied to a bed and tortured by officers, who smile while inflicting pain on the detainee.
In that sense, a former Russian prisoner, Alexander Zakamsky, reported that They “beat him with batons” and with “a taser gun to his genitals”. “This lasted two or three hours. They made us sing songs and tell jokes,” she added.
The man was found dead in a cell and his wife Elizaveta stated that the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) tortured him until he ended his life. In this regard, photos of his body revealed that he had numerous bruises and cuts all over his body. The woman shared the images on social networks and reported to the investigation committee in Russia. However, She had to go into exile from the country for questioning her husband’s death..
According to Osechkin, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s system of torture and abuse can only be stopped when the network of colonels, generals, majors, the FSB, the prison system and the army are dismantled. Along these lines, the Russian prison system houses more than 400 thousand prisoners and employs more than 158 thousand prison officials.
In this regard, the activist indicated that it is complex to deal with such a large organization, but that every day works at “great risk” to expose corruption in the Eurasian country. “I am Russian, that is my tragedy. I did not live in Russia following 2015, I do not pay money to this regime, but I am Russian,” which is why he wants to “stop” the system that “tortures and kills thousands.”
Osechkin tried to work in Russia and improve his country following hearing horror stories from prisoners. In this sense, he headed the Working Group on the Protection of the Rights of Prisoners in the State Duma, before being qualified as a threat to Putin.
For this reason, agents raided his Moscow home in 2015, confiscating the hard drives and all the evidence documents he had collected over the past three years. In addition to this, hours later he received a call where they told him that they would wait for him “in the president’s administration”: “Someone called me and told me: ‘now you understand that we are serious, spend this weekend with your family, and following this weekend, September 14, we will wait for you in the president’s administration‘”.
As a result of that episode, he and his wife decided to leave the country with their children and thus escape the government’s threats. They fled first to Turkey, then to northern Cyprus, before seeking political asylum in France, where they have lived for almost a decade. “The French services protect me and my family, but in a few days, weeks or months, the special forces of the Russian Federation will kill me“, said the man to The Sun.
“I mean what does Gulag to save my name and my reputation is important for my children and the next generation of my family,” he added. Despite protests and growing evidence of torture in Russian prison systems, authorities still deny any involvement in the torture of prisoners.
Reports of concentration camps for Ukrainians
According to what the man told the British media, a few weeks following the war broke out in Ukraine, he was informed that The Russian president created concentration camps for Ukrainians. “In March 2022 I received the first messages from our sources in Russia, who before being arrested sent me information that Putin created the first three concentration camps for the Ukrainian people,” he said.
And he added: “In these concentration camps, the torture that has been practiced for ten years once morest Russians is transmitted. And now they are torturing Ukrainians“.
In that sense, he shared the story of the Ukrainian soldier Alexander, who He spent nine months in concentration camps of Kursk and Tula in 2022. The photographs show the man, a robust ex-combatant, with a very thin physical build, to the point where his bones are visible, with a broken nose and a head injury.
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