Russian Men Forced into Conscripted Service: Beaten and Threatened with Rape

Relatives of two young Russian men claim that the two have been beaten and threatened with rape if they did not become conscription soldiers.

It is the independent Telegram channel «I can clarify» who writes this. This is a medium funded by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the oligarch who was imprisoned in Vladimir Putin’s Russia and now lives in Switzerland.

The case concerns two young Muscovites, 22-year-old Ivan Dubenko and 20-year-old Yevgeny Komarov.

Their relatives and friends claim that both are too ill to be soldiers.

They claim that the two have been subjected to beatings and threats from the military recruitment office.

The case is not discussed in the Kremlin-controlled media. However, several independent media have quoted from the Telegram media.

The police took the two Muscovites from their homes, according to “Mozjem jashinit”. The families claim that they are not suitable for military life: Dubenko has a spinal cord disease, while Komarov has asthma and a depressive disorder. Nevertheless, both have gone through the health examination and are staying in military camps.

Ivan Dubenko’s friend Elizaveta says that he has told that he was pressured and strangled by enlistment officers. While they were suffocating, they are said to have said that “now we are going to cure osteochondrosisosteochondrosisMajor medical encyclopedias: Osteochondrosis is the end-generational change of bones and their associated cartilage. from”.

He is said to have been threatened with being “raped with a stick” if he did not sign the conscription papers, it says.

Dubenko’s friend Pavel tells “Mozjem jashinit” that they have been promised that the military police will investigate the case.

The two were deprived of their mobile phones. The reason for this was that the military camp was a sensitive facility and that this kind of duppet ditt was therefore illegal. The two young men nevertheless managed to get in touch with relatives.

The relatives have filed a complaint with the military prosecutor, the armed forces, Moscow mayor Sergey Sobyanin and Moscow’s ombudsman Tatjana Potjaeva.

Human rights activist Elena Popova, who works for an organization for men who refuse military service for reasons of conscience, claims that she has never heard of physical violence in military recruitment offices before.

– But in the last year, the degree of violence in society has increased, including where there was no violence before, she says.