Volgograd Region prisoners rebel against ill-treatment

On November 21, a groups of prisoners barricaded in the territory of the high-security colony located in town of Frolovo near Volgograd in protest against the humiliating treatment by the colony personnel.

The conflict and attempt of revolt in Colony No. 25 was first reported by the prisoners and their relatives themselves.

According to one of their messages, about 200 people had barricaded inside some colony building. They did it in protest against the fact that one of the prisoners had been kept by colony staff outdoor in the frost as a regime infringer.

"The administration abuses the inmates by bringing them outdoor (at minus 12°C), placing them into a cage and keeping them there for three hours, when they were very lightly dressed. Then, the inmates were beaten up; in the meantime, other prisoners ran out and began defending their colleagues. They took them into the building and blocked the door not to let the administration in," says the message.

By the time, when bosses of the regional department of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) arrived in Colony No. 25, the prisoners' unrests had been suppressed, the press service of the FSIN reports.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.