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Communion wine and prosphora allowed to be brought into pre-trial detention centers in Russia

The Russian Justice Ministry has allowed clergy to bring Eucharistic bread and wine to detention centers for communion.

17:51 25.07.2022

Ex-deputy chief of Russia’s penitentiary service to go on graft trial

A case against a former deputy chief of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) Valery Maksimenko, who stands charged with taking bribes and abusive practice during the realization of state contracts, has been forwarded to court with an approved indictment.

10:51 13.07.2022

HIV and tuberculosis patients not to be kept in detention centers – Russian Justice Ministry

The Russian Ministry of Justice has developed a new list of serious diseases that prevent the detention of suspects and those accused of committing crimes.

17:47 26.10.2021

Preferential calculation of pretrial detention terms applies only to detained persons

The preferential rules for counting the time spent in a pretrial detention centers do not apply to those sentenced to imprisonment in general regime colonies or colony-settlements, if they are transferred to pretrial detention centers in connection with some other criminal case and are not taken into custody.

17:41 18.10.2021

Convicted ex-penitentiary official Korshunov seeks release from prison through illness

Ex- deputy director of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) Oleg Korshunov convicted of embezzlement has filed a motion seeking to release him because of grave illness.

13:35 04.10.2021

Former Russian penitentiary official investigated over residence permit of Cyprus

Investigators opened a criminal case against a former chief of the Federal Penitentiary Service’s (FSIN) Construction Directorate Andrey Obryvin, who had failed to notify authorities of his residence permit in Cyprus.

11:44 24.09.2021

About 182,000 prisoners сan seek for community service – Russian Justice Minister

About 182,000 prisoners in Russia have a right to seek for the replacement of their jail sentence with community service, Justice Minister Konstantin Chuichenko said opening a new correction centre near Moscow on Thursday.

16:54 16.09.2021

Case opened over organization of banned movement’s cell in Moscow detention center

Investigators have initiated probe into the organization of a cell of the banned movement Arestantskoye Ugulovnoye Yedinstvo / Criminal Unity of Inmates (AUE) in Moscow’s detention center Matrosskaya Tishina.

13:25 30.08.2021

Defense lawyers complain of impossibility to contact convicted foreigner Whelan

Defense lawyers for former American marine Paul Whelan sentenced to 16 years in high-security prison for espionage against Russia have filed complaints over impossibility to contact their client with the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) and the Prosecutor General’s Office.

10:29 17.08.2021

Navalny’s appeal against prone to escape status set for August 17

The Moscow City Court has scheduled an appeal filed by Alexey Navalny against dismissal of his lawsuit over assignment of the status of a convict prone to escape to him by a penal colony for August 17.

17:36 13.08.2021

Penitentiary officials seek to detain medical workers union's head in sanitary breach case

The Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) has filed a motion seeking to place the head of the medical workers' union Alyans Vrachei (Doctors' Alliance) Anastasia Vasilyeva in detention as part of a sanitary violations case.

14:18 04.08.2021

Civic activists to monitor voting of convicts at September elections in Russia

Convicts are to take part in the September elections voting under public control, the respective agreement has been signed in the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation.

14:48 29.07.2021

Probe into ex-head of Amur penal colony charged with abuse of office completed

Investigators in the Amur Region have completed probe into the former chief of the local penal colony N3 Alexey Zabluda charged with abuse of power.

13:28 27.07.2021

Detention centre officers ordered to report detainees’ hospitalization within 24 hours

Russia’s Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev has signed an order obliging employees of temporary detention facilities to notify relatives of first-aid dressing or hospitalization of detainees within 24 hours.

16:20 06.07.2021

Sentence of ex-St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region penitentiary official for graft upheld

The St. Petersburg City Court has upheld sentence given to ex-deputy chief of the Federal Penitentiary Service’s (FSIN) St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region Directorate Sergey Moiseyenko for receiving bribes amounting to 710 million rubles (about $10 million) during the construction of a detention center.

15:42 11.06.2021

Moscow Business Ombudsman to follow up cases of detained entrepreneurs

Moscow Business Rights Commissioner Tatiana Mineyeva and Deputy Moscow Prosecutor Sergey Savenkov are planning to visit businessmen awaiting trial in pretrial detention during the year.

16:25 08.06.2021

Navalny waives claims against penal colony

A court in Russia’s Vladimir Region has closed proceedings on two lawsuits filed by Alexey Navalny against the administration of a penal colony where the blogger is serving his sentence.

13:37 07.06.2021

Number of inmates dropped in Russia in first quarter of 2021 – Supreme Court head

The number of prisoners decreased by 4,700 people in Russia in the first quarter of 2021, the Supreme Court’s Chairman Vyacheslav Lebedev announced Tuesday.

14:58 25.05.2021

Russian Justice Ministry to complete Prison of the Future project by 2024

It is planned that the Prison of the Future project envisaging development of a complex facility combining a pretrial detention center, correctional institutions of different types, a prison, courtrooms, offices of prosecutors and lawyers, sports grounds and a production base is to be implemented in Russia by 2024, Deputy Justice Minister Yevgeniy Zabarchuk said at The Modernization of National Prison Estates discussion session at the St.

15:00 21.05.2021

Russian penal colonies and pretrial detention centers to be equipped with e-legal systems

Institutions of the Russian penal system are to be equipped with electronic databases of constantly updated normative legal acts regulating the rights and obligations of prisoners.

17:06 30.04.2021