Putin Fires Russian Prison Chief After Torture Scandal

[discocrisco01]

Source: Reuters

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday fired the head of Russia's prison service, weeks after the emergence of leaked videos that appeared to show prisoners being tortured and sexually assaulted.

Alexander Kalashnikov was dismissed with immediate effect, according to a terse decree published on the Kremlin's website. Arkady Gostev, a deputy interior minister, was appointed as his replacement.

Read more: https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-11-25/putin-fires-russian-prison-chief-after-torture-scandal

[paleotn]

1. Fired for not being more discrete....

not for torture. "Don't allow it to be videotaped, you idiot!" - Vlad Putin.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. +1

[MarcA]

6. Agreed. n/t

[DENVERPOPS]

7. Exactly

he wasn't fired for the torture, but for allowing it to be video taped and leaked.........

By the Way, was anyone ever charged for Abu Graib?????????

[Evolve Dammit]

8. low level folks one named Grenier I recall. One star gen. Kapinski was forced out, but may have been

for her whistle-blowing? I'm sorry but memory does not serve. Sure there is a record by some of the millions against the illegal war, chemical weapons use and torture. What really sucks about that is that the "torture report" presented to U.S. Seantors who were "visibly shaken" after viewing was never made public and copies were destroyed. Not sure if anything remains. Another whitewash in America. Just like Iraq Commission.

[DENVERPOPS]

9. Or Colin Powell

for his complicity in trying to cover up the Mai Lai massacre.........


I once said to my son, "we (the public) probably don't know one thousandth of what goes on........"

He replied: "And we probably DON'T WANT to know............"

[Evolve Dammit]

10. We may not want to know, but what is done in OUR name, we should be able to know.

And yes, Powell lied a lot. Aluminum tubes, mushroom clouds and WMD is up there. The whole Bush cabal has blood on their hands.

[msfiddlestix]

13. ✔️

[SledDriver]

3. Fired him out of what though?

A Polonium cannon?

[dsc]

4. have to say I would have thought the scandal in his eyes

would be a lack of torture.

[louis-t]

5. Only Putin is allowed to torture and murder.

Vlad doesn't like competition.

[King_Klonopin]

11. Alexander Kalashnikov... as in the AK 47 Alexander Kalashnikov ????

[COL Mustard]

12. What Was The Scandal?

Not enough torture???