A bill was introduced to the State Duma to toughen the punishment for torture organized by government officials. The founder of the Gulagu.net project, human rights activist Vladimir Osechkin, in an interview with him, called the development of the bill a victory and a statement of a global problem. At the same time, he noted that in order to work out the bill, it is necessary to involve experts who have been fighting this problem for more than 10 years.

“The fact that today the official representatives of the legislative branch are talking about the need to toughen the punishment for torture is in itself a victory for human rights defenders, it is a statement of a very serious, global problem that is corroding the Russian law enforcement system from within. Of course, we welcome the very idea of ​​toughening the punishment for torture. Another question is that it is very important to involve experts who have fought and is fighting torture for more than 10 years in a row, so that they will take an active part in the development of the final version of the bill, ”he said.

According to Osechkin, it is necessary to toughen the punishment for torture not only for ordinary employees of the pre-trial detention center and correctional colonies, but also for those who organize the "torture conveyor".

“In this bill, it is important not only to toughen punishment for ordinary perpetrators of torture, sadists and their primary curators, operatives of pre-trial detention centers and correctional colonies. It is much more important here to work out the entire chain of torture conveyors up to the FSB and FSIN generals who are behind the organization of the torture conveyors. Of course, for these monsters, who annually torture and kill tens and hundreds of people, it is necessary to provide for punishment up to life imprisonment, ”he explained.

At the same time, Osechkin added that the punishment for falsifying evidence by torture should be transferred to the category of "especially grave crimes." According to him, this bill should provide for the rehabilitation of victims of torture, as well as convicts or defendants, in relation to whom the special services used torture.

The authors of the bill, which was introduced to the lower house of parliament on December 20, were senators Andrei Klishas and Vladimir Poletaev, and deputy Pavel Krasheninnikov. For torture organized by representatives of the authorities, it is proposed to imprison for up to 12 years.

In early October, the Gulagu.net portal published footage of the rape and beatings of prisoners, which took place at once in several correctional institutions throughout the country. In total, the human rights project received more than 100 video files from the Federal Penitentiary Service, confirming the systemic nature of torture in the colonies and pre-trial detention centers of the Irkutsk, Vladimir and Saratov regions.

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