Native of Chechnya Zara Murtazalieva reports in Hamburg on human rights violations in Russian colonies

In Hamburg, at a public meeting, Zara Murtazalieva, a native of Chechnya, told about violations of human rights in the Russian colonies, where women are serving their terms, and about ill-treatment of prisoners; last year, she was released from prison, where she had been serving her sentence for preparation of a terror act in central Moscow.

Zara Murtazalieva's meeting with the German public was held in Hamburg on November 9 in the Rote Flora building, within the event, entitled "Russia – Territory of Lawlessness; Police, Court and Penal System". The meeting was attended by about 40 persons.

Speaking about women's prisons in Russia, Zara Murtazalieva made a comparison with Nazi concentration camps during the World War II.

"Beatings every day and all kinds of torture; work for 15 hours, seven days a week. We were sewing clothes; and for this hard work they paid us 200-300 roubles a month, which was enough to buy a kilo of sweets and a pound of cookies. The most common disease that supposedly caused prisoners' deaths was heart failure. In fact, people die from beatings and torture," said Zara.

Murtazalieva has reported that in the near future a roundtable will be held in Moscow on the situation in Russian women's prisons.