Issue # 15-2008. Content

The first material of the issue is the text by Serguei Brovchenko Behind bars. The author describes his life journey from the investigator of KGB to barrister and now Human Rights activist.

Yuri Aleksandrov in the material Juridical Training eplains the terms «Persistent Infringer of the Regime» and «Hooliganism» and the rules of trasportation of convicts as well as novels of 2007 in the Penitentiary Code.

Also in the first part of the issue we continue to publish The Militiaman's Cronicle by Vladimir Kuzemko.

In the material The Cost of Freedom: the Dacha of the Head of the Regional Penitentiary Administation the correspondent from Archanguelsk Aleksandr Kuleshov tells about the well-known case of this officer.

The Human Rights Activist Evgueni Ihlov in the article Amur, the River of Blood describes in details about the events of January 2008 in the colony #5 in the region Amurski where 700 or 800 mates protesting against beating en masse by the staff cut veins.

Here we also publish a part of the Annual Report of the Commissinary on the Human Rights in Russian Federarion jn the Human Rights in the places of confinement; statistics of the penitentiary system; statistics on the criminality; Monitor of the protest actions of prisoners which became traditional element of our issues; and an informational material on the prison industry in US.

In the part The Writers on the Rrison we publish a story by Oleg Pavlov about the life of the soldiers of custody in colonies. Two stories by Aleksandr Mulenko are also dedicated to the routine life of prison.

In the part Behind the bars we give abstracts from a book Help yourself where the normative acts for suspected, convict and accused person are collected by the Saint-Petersbourg branch of the Human Rights organization Committee for the Civil Rights.

In the same part we publish the material of the Human Rights activist Boris Panteleev Penitentiary Department and Human Right Activists where he analyses the relations between penitantiary system and Human Rights activists who are engaged in prison problems.

In the issue we publish also notices of the new web-sites and books on the main themes of the magazine.

Nevolia. Issue # 15-2008. Print version (PDF, Russian, 884Kb)