{"id":536,"date":"2018-03-17T14:45:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T11:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rupression.com\/?p=536"},"modified":"2018-04-26T14:52:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T11:52:44","slug":"tortured-petersburg-antifascist-viktor-filinkov-transferred-to-remand-prison-in-leningrad-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rupression.com\/en\/2018\/03\/17\/tortured-petersburg-antifascist-viktor-filinkov-transferred-to-remand-prison-in-leningrad-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Tortured Petersburg Antifascist Viktor Filinkov Transferred to Remand Prison in Leningrad Region"},"content":{"rendered":"

“We just visted Russian Federal Penitentiary Service Remand Prison No. 3 and learned that Viktor Filinkov was transferred to Remand Prison No. 6<\/a> the day before yesterday. Members of the Petersburg Public Monitoring Commission have no access to this prison, because it is located in Leningrad Region” – said<\/a> Yana Teplitskaya<\/p>\n

There are one hundred inmates per cell in Remand Prison No. 6, and there have been many complaints that \u201cpressure cookers\u201d are employed there.*<\/p>\n

There are reasons to believe that Viktor may be tortured again.<\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/strong>. Alexander Gennenbereg and Anna Osnach, wonderful members of the Leningrad Region PMC, have been to Remand Prison No. 6. Viktor is still in \u201cquarantine,\u201d a cell for sixteen inmates. There were no signs he had been beaten, nor did he say he had been beaten. Prison staff told the PMC members Viktor would be transferred from the quarantine cell on Monday.<\/p>\n

We do not know the formal grounds for his transfer to another remand prison.<\/p>\n

At Remand Prison No. 3, members of the Petersburg PMC were told that the papers for the transfer (\u201ca decision by the court or the investigator\u201d) were located at Remand Prison No. 6, but when the members of the Leningrad Region PMC visited Remand Prison No. 6 they were told the transfer was due to \u201coptimization\u201d and the directive for the transfer was located at Remand Prison No. 3.<\/p>\n

In fact, Viktor was transferred yesterday morning, not the day before yesterday.<\/p>\n

Unlike Remand Prison No. 3, it is impossible to protect inmates in Remand Prison No. 6. In Remand Prison No. 3, the cells are designed for two inmates and there are CCTV cameras everywhere, while Remand Prison No. 6 contains barracks designed for one hundred inmates. (Incidentally, unlike Petersburg\u2019s remand prisons, there are often more inmates in Remand Prison No. 6 than there are beds, and the inmates take it in turns to sleep.) We get a large number of complaints of beatings,\u00a0 hazings,** and so forth from Remand Prison No. 6. It is impossible to monitor the place.<\/p>\n

We have to get Viktor out of there.<\/p>\n

* My translation for the Russian prison slang term press-khata. According to Wiktionary<\/a>, a press-khata is a \u201cprison cell in which the wardens, with the help of cooperating prisoners, create intolerable conditions for inmates they do not like. \u25c6 \u2018Cell No. 45 was considered a pressure cooker. The most notorious, murderous \u201cbitches\u201d were locked up there. If it was necessary to break someone\u2019s spirit or just kill him, they were the people to turn to, since it was inexpensive. Often, a few packets of tea sufficed.\u2019 Yevgeny Sartinov, The Last Empire, I: The Coup<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

** My translation for the Russian prison slang term propiska, literally, \u201cregistration.\u201d Various Russian prison hazing rituals are described in the relevant article<\/a> in Alexander Kuchinsky, A Prison Encyclopedia (1998)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“We just visted Russian Federal Penitentiary Service Remand Prison No. 3 and learned that Viktor Filinkov was transferred to Remand Prison No. 6 the day before yesterday. Members of the Petersburg Public Monitoring Commission have no access to this prison, because it is located in Leningrad Region” – said Yana Teplitskaya There are one hundred<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[36,15],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artikel","tag-remand-prison","tag-saint-petersburg"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rupression.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rupression.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rupression.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rupression.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rupression.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rupression.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/rupression.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rupression.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rupression.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rupression.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rupression.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}