A court in Russia’s Chita has sentenced two employees of Penal Colony №5 Stanislav Badmaev and Anton Chupalov to 4-and-a-half and 4 years in prison accordingly for torturing an inmate with a stun gun, Aksioma, a Russian legal organisation that provides aid to victims of violence, reports.
The men were found guilty of abuse of power with the use of violence. They were taken into custody in the courtroom. Besides, the Russian Ministry of Finance ordered them to pay 50,000 rubles (€750) in damages to the prisoner.
Aksioma reports that last year, as a result of a personal conflict with an inmate, Badmaev and Chupalov took the prisoner out of his cell, put him up against the wall and hit him 17 times, using the stun gun 5 times. After that, one of the officers banged the prisoner’s head against the wall, and the other threatened to send him to a “petushatnik” (Russian prison slang for a separate cell for men who had homosexual relations). The prison guards later denied their involvement.
In April, Aksioma reported that Tatarstan police officer Dinar Gafiyatov was sentenced to five years in prison for the use of slave labour. In May 2019, Gafiyatov brought Idris Sadykov, a 49-year-old resident of Russia’s Tatarstan, to a location where he was beaten, ordered to do dirty work and threatened with a prison sentence if he tried to run. This is the first case of a policeman using slave labour in Russia, Aksioma notes.
