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Russian child rights ombudsman says 12% of minor convicts are orphans

17:35 19/06/2019 In 2018, 12% of minor convicts held in young offender colonies were orphans, Russia’s child rights ombudsman Anna Kuznetsova said on Wednesday.

Russian Supreme Court backs ban on cages in courtrooms

15:46 18/06/2019 The Supreme Court of Russia supports an initiative to abolish restrictions in the form of placing suspects and defendants in cages in courtrooms, the court’s Chairman Vyacheslav Lebedev told journalists on Tuesday.

Titov seeks to check confinement of two businessmen in one detention cell with murderer

12:46 17/06/2019 Russian business ombudsman Boris Titov has requested penitentiary authorities to check the fact of placing two businessmen charged with fraud in one detention cell with a man earlier convicted of murder.

Putin enacts control over medical treatment of drug-addicted convicts

15:17 07/06/2019 President of Russia Vladimir Putin on Friday signed a bill establishing a procedure of the control over mandatory undertaking treatment by convicted drug addicts into law.

Leningrad Region ombudsman seeks to cease convicts’ transfers to other regions

13:25 07/06/2019 Ombudsman of the Leningrad Region Sergey Shabanov has asked the Federal Penitentiary Service’s director Gennady Kornienko to give up on the practice of transfer of convicts, whose sentence has not taken effect, to detention centers in other regions.

Ex-employee of Moscow detention center gets 4 years for taking bribes

18:13 31/05/2019 The Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow has sentenced ex-employee a detention center Yekaterina Kravchuk to 4 years behind bars for taking bribes.

State Duma adopts bill on control over medical treatment of drug-addicted convicts

15:09 28/05/2019 The State Duma passed a government bill establishing a procedure of the control over mandatory undertaking treatment by convicted drug addicts in a final third reading on Tuesday.

Trial of ex-penitentiary official charged with bribery to be held in prison hospital

13:50 21/05/2019 Trial of ex-deputy director of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) Nikolay Barinov charged with taking about 110 million rubles (about $2 million) in bribes during a detention center construction will be held in a prison hospital because of his poor health.

Ex-Russian penitentiary official charged with bribery goes on trial

13:01 13/05/2019 A criminal case against ex-deputy director of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) Nikolay Barinov charged with receiving about 110 million rubles (about $2 million) in bribes during the construction of a detention center has reached court.

Bribery case against ex-penitentiary official forwarded to prosecutors

14:57 29/04/2019 A criminal case against ex-deputy director of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) Nikolay Barinov charged with receiving about 110 million rubles (about $2 million) in bribes during the construction of a detention center has been forwarded to prosecutors for approving indictment.

Parole petition of ex-penitentiary official’s accessory to embezzlement to be heard again

11:54 25/04/2019 The Moscow City Court has overturned a lower court’s refusal to release an accomplice of ex-deputy chief of Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) Oleg Korshunov, entrepreneur Marina Dyukova convicted of embezzlement, on parole.

Moscow court lifts seizure of ex-penitentiary director’s assets, gives him hope for parole

11:57 22/04/2019 Moscow’s Zamoskvoretsky District Court on Monday lifted the seizure of 1.8 million rubles (about $30,000) belonging to ex-director of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) Alexander Reimer sentenced to 8 years in prison for embezzlement.

Prosecutors seek prison terms for ex-penitentiary officers charged with torturing inmate

17:27 10/04/2019 Prosecutors have demanded prison terms ranging from 11 to 12 years for three former employees of a penal colony, who stand charged with torturing a prisoner.

Russian prosecutors to control observance of prisoners’ rights along with ombudsmen

15:46 10/04/2019 Prosecutors will get the penitentiary system under control and monitor the observance of inmates’ rights along with regional human rights commissioners, Russian ombudsman Tatiana Moskalkova said Wednesday citing the report of Prosecutor General Yury Chaika.

Russian penitentiary officials ordered to pay $800 to tortured inmate

17:44 25/03/2019 A court in Elista, the capital city of Russia’s Republic of Kalmykia, has recovered 50,000 rubles ($800) in compensation from the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) in favor of inmate Akhmed Saliyev, a victim of the colony officers’ tortures.

Ex-penitentiary official’s accessory to embezzlement denied parole

12:02 25/03/2019 The Lefortovsky District Court of Moscow on Monday refused to release an accomplice of ex-deputy chief of Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) Oleg Korshunov, entrepreneur Marina Dyukova convicted of embezzlement, on parole.

Detention center contractor gets suspended sentence for bribing penitentiary official

13:01 20/03/2019 Petroinvest company CEO engaged in the construction of a detention center Ruslan Khamkhokov has received a 5-year suspended term for bribing a Federal Penitentiary Service’s (FSIN) official.

Prosecutor seeks suspended term for businessman accused of bribing penitentiary official

18:05 13/03/2019 A prosecutor has demanded a 5-year suspended sentence for Petroinvest company CEO engaged in the construction of a detention center Ruslan Khamkhokov, who stands charged with bribing a Federal Penitentiary Service’s (FSIN) official.

Accomplice of ex-penitentiary official Korshunov seeks conditional release

12:17 05/03/2019 The Moscow Lefortovsky District Court is to hear a petition of entrepreneur Marina Dyukova, an accomplice of ex-deputy chief of Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) Oleg Korshunov, seeking to be released on parole.

Probe into ex-penitentiary official Korshunov completed - investigators

17:46 25/02/2019 The Investigative Committee of Russia has completed a probe into ex-Deputy chief of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) Oleg Korshunov and his alleged accomplices.

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