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Russian Prison Officials Sentenced for Torture and Rape of Prisoners
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2012
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2012, page 46
by Matt Clarke
Filed under:
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Excessive Force,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Prisoners-International.
Location:
Russian Federation.
In March 2011, Lt. Colonel Vyacheslav Tippel, former head of the prison department for the St. Petersburg region in Russia, received a seven-year sentence for ordering the rape and torture of a prisoner. Six other prison officials with the Federal Service for the Execution of Punishment (FSIN) ...
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