Quote Originally Posted by Johanna
Mischa - the prison video is really terrible. The prison guards are totally out of order. What they are doing is surely illegal, right? They ought to be sacked. I wonder who managed to film it - seems risky.
From what I know, the video was made by the press-cutting service of the prisoner camp for a purpose of intimadation and mamagement of the popullation. Then the video was given to Sokolov (head of a regional organization "Правовая основа") by one of the policemen and after that a well-known Russian human right activist L.Panamarev with a lawyer Robert Amsterdam started spreading the film. Amsterdam put the film on youtube where it was first censored, and restored shortly later for the sake of not hiding facts of human rights abuse in Russia (or something like that). Lev Panamarev also wrote a special article where he called Kalinin (head of that camp) the author of a new sadistic system of prisoner management for what police inspired proceedings against Ponomarev blaming him in honor abuse.


If anybody got beaten by the guards in a European prison and media found out:
---The prisoners would get compensation for "suffering".
---The guards would be suspended and sent on "sensitivity training"
---A prisoner would write a best-seller book about his experiences...
As for Russia, we can read that police didn't see any crimes in beating prisoners as shown in videomaterials.

In fact there's no protection against sadistic guards and policemen in Russia. By defending such policemen the system encourages sadists to continue violence.