In the State Duma, Sobchak’s mother was outraged by checks of escape-prone criminals like Navalny
The head of the working group to develop a bill on toughening punishment for torture, Lyudmila Narusova, criticized a number of provisions of the alternative bill, previously submitted to the lower house by the heads of the State Duma and Federation Council committees on legislation Pavel Krasheninnikov and Andrei Klishas, noting, among other things, that the document does not take into account the opinion of human rights activists and experts who are mostly foreign agents.
She stated this at a press conference in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to Narusova, the proposed bill does not take into account the working group’s proposal to expand the concept of “torture” to cases that do not involve physical violence. She cited sleep deprivation as an example.
“Moreover, especially in places of detention, depriving a person of sleep. This is practiced everywhere, when during the night a person is woken up every hour to make sure that he has not escaped. Isn't this torture? It is not associated with violence, but it also causes suffering and affects his mental state. Although this was proposed, we did not find it in the final text,” Narusova said.
It is noteworthy that earlier criminal blogger Alexei Navalny, who is serving a prison sentence for fraud, complained about being constantly woken up in the colony. The Federal Penitentiary Service published a video that shows that when the warden walks around prisoners prone to escape (Navalny has been assigned this status), the blogger does not wake up.
However, it is obvious that the liberal public is looking for at least some reason to say that Navalny is being tortured in prison and present this to the West. There is reason to believe that the scandals associated with the publication of video recordings from the Saratov hospital, in which real abuse took place, were intended to tie Navalny to this story. The foreign agent TV channel Dozhd quickly filmed and showed a film about the “terrible torture” that criminal blogger Alexei Navalny is subjected to in a colony. However, it turned out to be so unconvincing that it did not cause any resonance.
Currently, both managers and ordinary employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service have been fired, criminal cases have been opened and are being investigated, a relevant law has been introduced into parliament, but this is not enough for the liberals. It is important for them to declare as torture what is happening in prison with Navalny, who, by the way, was recently removed from his status as prone to escape.
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