Unrest occurred in the Nizhny Tagil colony

The Centre for Prisoner Support, citing the relatives of convicts, reported unrest in the Nizhny Tagil maximum-security colony USh 349/12.

As Polit.ru reports, citing the centre’s press release, the unrest began in the colony on 28 May.

“At present, the colony is literally under ‘siege’—it is surrounded by OMON armoured personnel carriers and special forces units of the Federal Penitentiary Service. Employees of the penal system are afraid to enter the colony’s territory, carrying out short ‘sorties’: they catch the prisoners one or two at a time, beat them brutally, and throw them into the punishment cell,” the report says.

“At present, there are about two hundred convicts in the colony’s punishment cell, which is designed for 50 people. Moreover, many of them have serious injuries and need medical help. Only a portion of them ended up in the punishment cell today (30 May); the majority have been there over the last three days.”

As “UralPolit.ru” reports, the Prosecutor’s Office has begun an inspection in the Nizhny Tagil colony.

The Human Rights Commissioner of the Sverdlovsk Region, Tatyana Merzlyakova, will visit the Nizhny Tagil colony No. 12 today, 1 June. The ombudsman plans to find out the details of the incident related to the harsh suppression of the unrest.

The press service of the Main Directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service denies the information about unrest in IK-12, noting that the colony is operating in normal mode.