Posted on 11/03/2021 6:00:33 AM PDT by Mount Athos
Facebook on Monday deleted the account of a Russian activist who exposed abuse in the country's prison system, only to reinstate the page following a public outcry.
Vladimir Osechkin is the founder of Gulagu.net, a watchdog site that last month rose to prominence after it posted thousands of photos and videos that show Russian security forces torturing and raping prisoners.
Russian officials have launched investigations into the leaked videos. But the Russian interior ministry also placed the man who leaked the videos on a wanted list. Sergei Savelyev, who obtained the videos while working as an inmate on the prison's computer system, says Russian security threatened to kill him if he did not denounce Gulagu.net. Savelyev is seeking political asylum in France.
Gulagu.net alleges that the videos, which were recorded by prison officials, are used as blackmail against prisoners after they are released.
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At least Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn didn’t have Facebook to contend with.
The authorities issue a warrant for his arrest?
sounds like our FBI type of crap.
Someone shows how corrupt things are so go after the guy showing the crimes.
Not go after the culprits doing the illegal stuff.
Super bad “Hombreys” are in the Gulag. Its like a MI 13 cage. The Russian idea of prisoner treatment depends on why they were brought there. Its a different kind of criminal treatment. When they say hard labor, they mean it. Its not a wishy washy type of prison system like here. You do the bad, you get the baddest.
Facebook = Fakebook
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