MOSCOW: Russia's prison service said on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila) it had sacked five officers, including the head of an infirmary and a regional chief, after harrowing videos emerged of alleged rape in a jail hospital. Videos of alleged rape and torture at a prison infirmary treating inmates with tuberculosis in the central city of Saratov were published this week by Gulagu.net, a rights group aiming to expose abuses in Russia's vast prison system. One video shows a man shoving a broom handle up the rectum of a screaming inmate tied to his bed.
