Russian "Doctor Death" Psychiatrist Anastasia Potorochina, Convicted of 21 Patient Deaths

May 1, 2025

A psychiatrist who ran a "torture conveyor belt" at a prison hospital where more than 20 patients died is now hoping to avoid jail by being sent to Vladimir Putin’s war as a medic.

Dr. Anastasia Potorochina, 32, illegally tied inmates to their beds for weeks or months, and injected them with mind-altering “psychotropic drugs”. A total of 21 patients died on her “torture conveyor belt” at notorious Interregional Tuberculosis Hospital No. 19, part of Putin’s Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN). Some 43 prisoners were tortured, according to the closed-doors court case where she was convicted and sentenced to five years behind bars.

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