Parliament approves sadistic Russian prison law to legalize using torture as “justifiable” violence| Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

Russia’s lower house of parliament has approved a prison reform bill that will give prison guards the authority to use new forceful measures against inmates. The bill was passed on Wednesday on its first reading, Member of Parliament Dmitry Gudkov reported. The drafted law, referred to as the “sadists’ law” by human rights activists in Russia,…