Former prisoners who were tortured inside a Russian prison have been talking to RFE/RL about their lives since their release. In a new RFE/RL documentary, they discuss the fate of the imprisoned guards who tortured them, and say torture continues to be used routinely in Russian penitentiaries
Nikolai Kavkazsky, an opposition Yabloko activist who has served time on political charges, agrees, saying, “Russia’s entire penitentiary system is built on violence.”