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Ukrainian political prisoner Alexander Shumkov said that many political prisoners serving time in Russia go through torture and humiliation.
Ukrainian political prisoner Alexander Shumkov, who spent more than three years in prison in the Russian Federation, said “BBC News Ukraine “on the torture and humiliation of Russian security officials against political or military prisoners.
“The Russian Federal Security Service went through different things: they were electrocuted, they put on a gas mask. As I was later told in places of detention, this is their favorite method of torturing political or military prisoners,” he said .
According to him, mMany political prisoners serving sentences under art. 205 (terrorist act) o Art. 208 (organization of an illegal armed formation or participation in it) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, went through this procedure.
“The colony administration is investigating which of the new prisoners is potentially dangerous. At the reception, they are offered, although this cannot be called a voluntary procedure, various humiliations. For example, instead of toilet paper, use a rag that the workers of the colony stepped on. I refused, and that’s why they beat me. They said I was in the Maidan, fought in the Donbass, etc. “- he said Shumkov.
According to him, he had “even friendly relations” with other prisoners in the colony.
“The Russian prison is now a” prison of the peoples “. There, in addition to the Russians, you can meet Ukrainians, Caucasians and people from Central Asia. When I was in the residential area of the colony, the Ukrainians were no longer called” Ukrainians, “says the former political prisoner.
On the eve of the Ukrainian Shumkov, who spent three years in prison in the Russian Federation accused of belonging to the “Right Sector”, he returned to his homeland.
Sevskiy District Court of Bryansk Region December 4, 2018 sentenced Shumkov to four years in prison general regime of belonging to the “Right Sector”. According to the case materials, Shumkov “for a long time” was the bodyguard of the former leader of the “Right Sector” Dmitry Yarosh.
The Ukrainian said that in late August 2017, FSB agents kidnapped him and transported him to Russian territory. According to Shumkov, at the time of the kidnapping he was an active member of the 11th Separate Brigade of the Army Aviation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (stationed in the village of Chernobaevka, Kherson region).
October 15, 2019 Shumkov went on a hunger strike demanding that Russia stop blackmailing with the use of prisoners in negotiations in the Minsk and Normandy formats. October 23 he ended up in the hospital… November 7 Ukraine stopped the hunger strike.
Shumkov served his sentence in Correctional colony in the city of Torzhok, Tver region. For almost the entire period of his incarceration, he was in a punishment cell and a detachment under strict conditions of detention.
The Ukrainian, while serving his sentence, said he was beaten by Russian jailers.
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