Yevgeny Makarov

In 2011, he was sentenced to six years and 10 months incarceration in Yaroslavl on charges of robbery and battery.

In 2017, Makarov's lawyer lodged a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights over his treatment in prison. Later that year, a 10-minute video was filmed inside the prison in which over a dozen prison guards were pinning him down on a table and torturing him, including stripping him, physically beating him, and waterboarding him.^[2] Following the torture, he was placed in solitary confinement.^[3] The video was then leaked to independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, who published it. Following a significant outcry, the Federal Penitentiary Service announced that it would be launching a formal investigation into torture allegations in Russian prisons, and 14 prison guards in Yaroslavl were arrested.^[4] Makarov's lawyer was subsequently forced to flee Russia after receiving death threats.^[5][6]

In October 2018, he was released from prison.^[7] In November 2020, 13 people were convicted of abuse of office over his case, with sentences up to 51-months. However, both the prison director and the deputy prison director were acquitted of the charges against them.^[8] In July 2022, Makarov died of pneumonia at the age of 29.^[9]