A prisoner sentenced to 12 years for sexual violence and torture in a penal colony in Angarsk has gone to war.

Alexander Aniskov The Anti-Torture Team discovered that he signed a contract with the Ministry of Defense and went to a war zone. His criminal case was suspended back in February. This only became known when the victims' defense appealed one of the court's rulings.

In November 2025, the court found Alexander Aniskov guilty of sexual abuse of prisoners. Pre-trial Detention Center No. 6 Angarsk and sentenced him to 12 years in a maximum security penal colony.

While serving his other sentence, and in collusion with pretrial detention facility management, Aniskov bound, beat, tortured with a stun gun, and gang-raped prisoners transferred there from Correctional Colony No. 15. In this way, pretrial detention facility staff sought to coerce the prisoners into incriminating themselves and confessing to organizing the riot.

Prisoners IK-15 In Angarsk, workers worked at industrial sites but received extremely low pay or no pay at all. In April 2020, they staged a riot in protest. Hundreds refused to go to work and then set fire to the industrial zone. More than 400 people were injured during the suppression of the riot.

In February 2025, 12 rioters received sentences ranging from 5,5 to 21 years in prison on charges of mass rioting and disrupting prison operations. Those who raped the rioters in IK-15 were also convicted. There were eight defendants in total, but only three were convicted—the rest went to war in Ukraine. Prisoners Alexander Aniskov and Vladimir Reshchikov received 12 and 5 years in prison, a former employee Dmitriy  Baroyan - 6 years.