The FSB has begun mass-producing staged arrest videos to “create an atmosphere...

The FSB has begun mass-producing staged videos of arrests to “create an atmosphere of total control”

After the start of the war in Ukraine, the FSB began mass-producing staged videos of arrests, searches, and suspects’ confessions to create an “atmosphere of total control” and intimidate Russians, experts from the “Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial” project said in a report.

Human rights defenders analyzed 70 criminal cases featuring videos by the security service and found signs of staging in at least a quarter of them. Among the most telling cases were the filming of the arrest of Romanian citizen Adrian-David Kercho, Kherson resident Yuri Kayev, and Crimean residents Alexei and Vladimir Settarov.

💜Verstka previously reported that since 2022, criminal prosecution for treason and espionage has become widespread. Hundreds of Russians are detained on such charges every year.

Read Verstka’s report on how and for what treason cases are mass-fabricated in Russia, and what made it possible to put this on an industrial scale (with a VPN):

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