A Texas father has revealed the grisly conditions he is enduring in the Soviet-era penal colony he was thrown into after trying to visit his sons in Russia.
David Barnes, 69, was arrested in January 2022, shortly after he flew to Moscow to see his children, whom he alleges were abducted by his ex-wife, Svetlana Boricovna.
Boricovna was accused of taking their American-born sons, now aged seven and 11, from their home in Houston unlawfully, prompting an Interpol alert.
The couple had an acrimonious divorce in which Boricovna accused him of sexually abusing their children. Texas authorities investigated the claims and ruled that Barnes had not
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