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Disability care home in Psedakh.
Crime

Ingushetia disability care home accused of chaining naked patients to benches

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Images have appeared online purportedly showing patients being abused at an Ingush care home for people with intellectual disabilities.  Images shared by Russian Telegram channel Baza [WARNING: DISTURBING IMAGERY] showed naked patients shackled to benches and to the wall in an empty tiled room. Also shown in the images were metal bowls from which the patients eat from using their hands.  The facility in Psedakh, a village in northwestern Ingushetia, caters to people who are unable to care

Photo: Filipp Kochetkov/TASS.
Human Rights

Prison riot in Vladikavkaz over alleged torture

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A prison riot has taken place at a penal colony in the North Ossetian capital, Vladikavkaz, over the alleged torture of prisoners. The Russian Federal Penitentiary Service stated that the protests on 15 October were suppressed on the same day, with a number of inmates transferred to penitentiary institutions in other regions. Local special police units were brought in to storm the facility.  The Investigative Committee of North Ossetia has launched a probe into the riots. The riot erupted

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