A riot has occurred in the Turkestan region of Kazakhstan, RIA Novosti reports, citing the committee of the penal system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic. The prisoners expressed their disagreement with the detention regime. As a result of the riots, a guard and soldiers of the National Guard of Kazakhstan were injured.
In the institution of the Turkestan region, some of the convicts expressed disobedience due to disagreement with the detention regime. A criminal case was opened on this fact under Part 3 of Article 428 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan , the report says .
The head of the committee, personnel of the department of the penal system, military and supervisory bodies arrived at the colony. The situation in the institution has already been stabilized. The victims received medical assistance.
In June, inmates of a pretrial detention center in Rostov Oblast took two employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service hostage . Later, the acting head of Rostov Pretrial Detention Center No. 1, Roman Zabolotnev, was fired . A criminal case was opened against him under the article “Negligence”. It is alleged that Zabolotnev has no right to reinstatement; his FSIN employee ID was taken away.
In August, hostages were taken in penal colony No. 19 in the Volgograd region . The Mash Telegram channel reported the reason for the murder of a prison employee by the hostage takers. According to the prisoners, all the radicals had their hair cut and their heads shaved after the incident in Rostov’s SIZO-1.