Political prisoner Alexei Petrov was beaten until his ribs were broken and forcibly shaved in a pre-trial detention center, his medication was confiscated and he was sent by convoy from Kamchatka to Moscow.
In the same pre-trial detention center in Irkutsk, prisoners are tortured with the song "Blue Tractor".
"The tonometer and medicines were confiscated, I don't receive medical assistance, and they don't want to respond to my requests. But they shaved my head, and by force. You know, in the military hospital I had no broken ribs. Here it is only violence," wrote Petrov in a letter to his wife.
Petrova's interlocutor said that the man is now traveling in a convoy across the entire country - he "finished the investigation in Kamchatka, the courts will be in Moscow."
From October 22 to November 9 he was in transit at Pretrial Detention Center No. 1 in Irkutsk. On November 6, Alexey wrote that he was forcibly shaved, and also had two broken ribs. The injuries did not prevent Alexey from being sent further along the stage - now in Detention Center No. 1 in Novosibirsk.
The interlocutor also said that in this pre-trial detention center there is another sophisticated form of torture - they play the children's song "Blue Tractor" all day long.
A relative of another political prisoner added for RusNews that in the Irkutsk pre-trial detention center two weeks ago, everyone's medicine was confiscated, and shaving one's head is also a long-standing practice there.
Alexei Petrov was arrested in January 2025 for commenting from 2020 about a covid vaccine to "Kremlin kashchis" hoping that "the virus will take him away". For this, a criminal case was opened against him for "public calls for terrorism". He was later accused of treason - the details of the charge are unknown; According to Petrov, American and Ukrainian media appear there.
In the same Irkutsk pre-trial detention center No. 1, the political prisoner Timofey Panchenko tried to injure himself this summer due to the pressure on him and the unbearable conditions of detention. There they beat the "traitor" Andrei Fedelka for not shouting loud enough to congratulate the administration. Because of this, he cut his lower abdomen with a blade.