Russian prisoners denounce systemic torture In July 2018, Russian opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta broadcast a video showing more than a dozen monitors of a prison camp in the Yaroslavl region carrying violent blows to a handcuffed inmate who is screaming, lying on a table. The wide circulation of this video filmed a year ago provoked an avalanche of testimony of violence and abuse in Russian prisons, and a wave of shock across society. Former inmate Sergei Nikonorov, 55, describes his ordeal in prison. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES