Maiming Protest

The BBC reports that some 180 inmates have slashed their wrists or necks at a prison in western Russia in protest at their conditions:

Doctors have examined the prisoners' injuries at the jail in Lgov in the Kursk region, Russian media say.

Their cuts were not life-threatening, but the examination also revealed that some prisoners had been beaten and tortured, they reported.

Prosecutors have opened a case of alleged mistreatment by prison guards; inmates' relatives staged a protest.