MOSCOW, June 19 (RAPSI) – The Elista City Court has sentenced a penal colony employee Alexey Mutulov to 4 years in prison for beating an inmate, lawyer Vitaly Zubenko has told RAPSI.

The defendant has been also prohibited from serving in penitentiary services for 2.5 years.

According to the lawyer, in November 2016, Mutulov, a junior inspector of the penal colony’s security department started for no reason beating and strangling a 23-year old inmate.

Zubenko reminded that in 2017 the Supreme Court of Kalmykia Republic upheld sentences for 7 employees of the same penal colony, who tortured inmates in 2012 and 2015. One of the victims died in the process.