Five Uzbek inmates sentenced after tunnel escape from Russian prison
A court in Lipetsk, Russia, handed down sentences in October 2024 to six inmates who dug a 30-meter tunnel and successfully escaped from a penal colony.

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The escapees were found guilty under Article 313 of the Russian Criminal Code (“Escape from a detention facility by a group of individuals”) and were sentenced to terms ranging from 4.5 to 12.5 years in prison.
According to the court’s ruling, the inmates serving their sentences at Penal Colony No. 2 in Lipetsk used pipes, shovels, and fragments of cutting discs over a two-month period to dig the tunnel. The tunnel, which stretched more than 30 meters, passed beneath the colony’s fence. On October 25, 2024, the six prisoners – five citizens of Uzbekistan and one of Tajikistan – escaped through the tunnel.
Five of them were quickly apprehended, while the sixth was found on November 6 in the Tambov region.
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