Chechnya
The green zone: where Russia’s Caucasian prisoners are fighting back
Prisoners from the Caucasus in Russian jails receive a ‘special treatment’ of beatings, bullying, and torture from both prison authorities and their fellow inmates. But in the ‘green zone’ prisons, where Muslim inmates have developed a system of resistance — the North Caucasians are fighting back. Beslan (not his real name) was released from a penal colony in the Urals several months ago. ‘I witnessed how they beat the Caucasian prisoners — most of them Daghestanis — because of how they
