Colony

A minor (minors) accompanied by adults is allowed to meet with suspects or accused persons held in a pre-trial detention center, as well as with persons sentenced to imprisonment.

The state prosecution requested the Minsk City Court to impose a punishment in absentia for the Belarusian oppositionists Svetlana Takhanovskaya and Pavel Latushko who left in the form of 19 years in a penal colony. This was reported by the state agency BELTA.

Ex-advisor to the General Director of Roscosmos, former special correspondent of Kommersant and Vedomosti Ivan Safronov will serve his sentence in the case of treason in Сorrectional facility-7, located in the village of Areyskoye in the Yemelyanovsky district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

The Supreme Court rejected the claim of the former mayor of Makhachkala, Said Amirov, who demanded to lift the ban on the wearing of wristwatches by prisoners in correctional institutions. The former mayor motivated his appeal by the need to take medications at the appointed time.

The artist received 7.5 years in prison for the death of a person in an accident arranged by him.

The Ministry of Justice has published a draft of new internal regulations of pre-trial detention centers and correctional institutions. Among the innovations, it is proposed to remove restrictions on visiting prisoners, suspects and accused by their children.

Ex-deputy of the Nekrasovsky rural settlement of the Yaroslavl municipal district Alexander Bortnikov, expelled from the United Russia party in February 2022, was found guilty in the case of a drug laboratory. The Yaroslavl Regional Court sentenced him to 15 years and 3 months in a strict regime colony.

A fire broke out in the correctional colony No. 4 of the Novgorod region in the city of Valdai. One prisoner was killed. The incident was reported in the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Novgorod region.

US citizen Paul Whelan, sentenced in Russia to 16 years of strict regime for espionage, said about "limitless" corruption in the Mordovian colony No. 17, where he is serving a sentence. He demanded that the Russian security officials investigate the situation.