Uzbeks sentenced for tunneling escape from Russian prison
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17 May 16731
A court in Lipetsk, Russia, sentenced six prisoners who escaped from a general regime prison in October 2024 by digging a 30-meter tunnel, Kommersant reported.
The prisoners, including five Uzbek citizens and one Tajik citizen, used metal sheets, a pipe, a shovel, and a disk to dig the tunnel beneath the prison wall over two months. On October 25, 2024, they escaped through the tunnel. Five were immediately recaptured, and the last was found on November 6, 2024.
They were serving sentences for rape and drug trafficking.
The court found them guilty under Article 313 of the Russian Criminal Code (group escape from a place of deprivation of liberty) and sentenced them to prison terms ranging from 4.5 to 12.5 years.
It should be noted that earlier, an Uzbek citizen involved in the Russian-Ukrainian war was sentenced to four years in prison.
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