The Investigative Committee in the Kaluga colony opened a case after the death of a prisoner, Gulagu.net reported that he spoke out against torture in the colony
According to the human rights project Gulagu.net, 34-year-old Mikhail Smirnov openly spoke out against the beatings and torture that the new head of Kaluga penal colony No. 3 began using.
The Kaluga Oblast Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service reported that there was a fight between inmates in the medical unit of EC-3 “because of personal animosity”. One of the inmates was injured. According to the FSIN, the man was given medical assistance, but he died.
Gulagu.net calls the incident not a fight, but an “extrajudicial execution”
Today in the Kaluga region a criminal case was opened over the death of a convict.