Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Russian prisoners who refuse to sign up to fight in Ukraine are being subjected to physical abuse and forced to make self-incriminating 'blackmail videos', according to leaked photos and video. ⬇️

2/ The Russian human rights organisation Gulagu.net has published what it says is evidence of staff in penal colony no. 4 in Kaluga Oblast abusing prisoners who refused to go to war "because of their beliefs and did not approve of other inmates being sent to war."

3/ A brief video shows a man bent over being urged by a prison guard to repeat "louder!" that he rejects the "thieving tradition", in other words the very strict thieves' code that governs the inmates of Russian prisons.

4/ This is a big deal for him to say: it's likely that he is being made to say it in order to get him into trouble with other convicts for rejecting, albeit under duress, the rules he is supposed to follow in prison. These are taken very seriously by the 'vory' (convicts).

5/ It's also an indication that another wave of prison mobilisation is likely planned. It's doubtful that the guards would go to this trouble unless they had a good reason to try to make the prisoners change their minds. /end

Source:
t.me/NetGulagu/4024