MOSCOW, April 30 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian Justice Ministry's Sentence Enforcement Unit has denied allegations about mass violations of inmates in pre-trial detention centers and penitentiaries of the Irkutsk region, in Siberia, and the Chelyabinsk region, in the Urals mountains.
"The reports about mass abuse that are being circulated by the For Human Rights national public movement as well as by the human rights associations Committee for Protection of Prisoners and Urals Amnesty have nothing to do with the truth," the Sentence Enforcement Unit says in a press release.
"The leaders of these so-called human rights organizations displayed legal incompetence by spreading false information, in violation of effective legislation and unaware of the situation on the ground," it points out.
