Public prosecutor requests three years of imprisonment in case on beating of detainee in Kuban

A public prosecutor requested court to sentence Yevgeniy Volkov, the deputy police chief of the Primorsko-Akhtarsky District of the Krasnodar Territory, accused of involvement in the beating of a detainee, to three years of imprisonment.

On May 13, 2021, it became known that the deputy chief of the police department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) Directorate for the Krasnodar Territory was suspected of beating a detainee. According to the human rights defenders’ information, Nikolai Bondarenko, Andrei Popov, and Sergey Duz were beaten. Law enforcers tried to force the detainees to confess to stealing cows and heating boilers. The case on beating of Andrei Popov was transferred to the prosecutor’s office, and the case on beating of Nikolai Bondarenko was instituted a year after the incident. The law enforcers deny their participation in the beating.

The public prosecutor suggests that Yevgeniy Volkov’s guilt is fully confirmed by the evidence available in the criminal case, the “Team Against Torture”* reports.

*The “Team against Torture” (TaT, formerly the “Committee against Torture” – CaT) was created by the lawyers who had earlier worked for the CaT, which was included into the register of the NCOs performing the functions of foreign agents.