Russia, whose defense and security agencies are heavily focused on its war in Ukraine, has seen a recent upsurge in Islamist militant attacks.

Russia, whose defense and security agencies are heavily focused on its war in Ukraine, has seen a recent upsurge in Islamist militant attacks.

Four knife-wielding prisoners claiming to be Islamic State group militants launched a deadly attack in a penal colony in southern Russia on Friday before being killed and their hostages released, officials said.

The attack left four people dead, while the four hostage-taking prisoners were “neutralized” by snipers, Russian officials said.

The attackers initially seized eight penal colony employees and four fellow inmates, according to Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Ser

  • alcoholicorn@lemmy.mlEnglish
    512·
    3 months ago

    People spend years in metal boxes without seeing another human, what we do to our prisoners literally causes PTSD and would be a war crime if done to POWs.

    And that’s the system acting entirely within the law as prescribed. There’s even more horrific cases of what guards regularly do to inmates on their own initiative.

    • lemmylommy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      141·
      3 months ago

      Yes, it’s bad. But you get all of that and then some in Russian penal colonies.

      • Plopp@lemmy.worldEnglish
        72·
        3 months ago

        But that “and then some” could be video games and snacks, you don’t know! /s