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Smoke increases from a fire that broke out at the prison after a riot.
A fire has swallowed up large parts of a prison in Russia’s Siberia area following a riot by prisoners who implicated guards of mistreating them.
Authorities say inmates at the high-security Penal Nest No 15 assaulted a guard who had tried to assist a prisoner bleeding from a self-inflicted wound.
A number of detainees slashed their own arms in demonstration at being beaten by a guard as penalty, activists said.
Some Russian human rights websites were down on Saturday.
Activists say the absence of analysis by outsiders gives guards a free rein to use violence.
Authorities stated the discontent in the city of Angarsk, which broke out on Thursday, was now under control and an investigation had actually been launched.
Russian prisons have actually remained in