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Leaked Photos Show Jan 6 Prisoner Tortured, Held in Horrific Conditions for Months
SLAY ^ | August 17, 2023 - 12:46 pm | Frank Bergman

Posted on 08/17/2023 9:54:03 AM PDT by Red Badger

New photos have been leaked from a Philadelphia prison, exposing the horrific conditions that a Jan. 6 prisoner is being subjected to.

The images show Jan. 6 prisoner Ryan Samsel pictured in the closet room he has been held in isolation for the past five months.

Samsel has been held in prison without trial since January 2021.

During his two-and-a-half years in jail, Ryan has been moved around to 17 different facilities.

He has been beaten, abused, tortured, and neglected since his arrest in January 2021.

The new photos were leaked from the FDC in Philadelphia to The Gateway Pundit.

The cell was a size of a closet with a light on 24 hours a day.

The cell doesn’t have a bed and only offers a thin blue mattress on the floor with no sheets or blankets.

With no clothing, Samsel was kept in this cell for five months straight.

In a conversation this week, Samsel told The Gateway Pundit: “I was kept in … a hard cell.

“And in that particular cell about five, six months. I even told you what was happening is the judge was actually calling, trying to get in contact with me because I wasn’t in a named cell.

“They were missing me and they were saying I wasn’t showing up to court.

“They were saying I wasn’t showing up to medical.

“But they were pretty much keeping me in there…

“Like I said, it was cold, the light was on, there’s zero window.

“And that followed me from Virginia. When I was in Virginia, it was the same exact conditions.”

Ryan described the same situation in Virginia.

“It was Central Regional Virginia Jail (CVRJ),” he recalled.

“I was kept in and they called it booking hard cell, which is you get zero phone, zero commissary, zero clothing because they think that you’re going to hang yourself and you’re on constant surveillance.

“You’re under surveillance constantly.

“The light has to be on 24/7. You’re locked in a cell.

“There is no getting out,” he noted.

“The windows in Virginia were covered by a black mat, so you weren’t able to see.

“And it’s constant nothing. It’s deprivation of everything.”

Samsel believes the government tortured him for months so he would testify against the Proud Boys.

Samsel says he was beaten numerous times and was kept locked down so he couldn’t communicate with anyone.

He is not alone, however.

Numerous Jan. 6 prisoners have been held for months in torturous conditions, dozens have been sentenced to extreme sentences for non-violent crimes.

A fundraising campaign has been set up to help raise money for Sansels legal fees.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: bidensbrownshirts; capitolriot; fake; hh2; j6; jan6; politicalprisoner; ryansamsel; solitaryconfinement; stasi; terrorization; terrorized
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To: Red Badger

If there ever was a demon possessed political party it is the Democrats ... that’s why I call them the Demoncrats.


41 posted on 08/17/2023 12:24:06 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Red Badger

This young man looks like quite the Victim.


42 posted on 08/17/2023 12:24:46 PM PDT by Observator
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

Nothing at that link


43 posted on 08/17/2023 12:30:28 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Red Badger

Most Americans are ok with it as long as it’s not happening to them..


44 posted on 08/17/2023 12:37:04 PM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

Apparently he was also on parole in Pennsylvania and was wanted out of Riverside, New Jersey, on a warrant in a 2019 assault case.


45 posted on 08/17/2023 12:38:19 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Red Badger

Joseph Stolen emulates Joseph Stalin.


46 posted on 08/17/2023 12:43:03 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Red Badger

Once the institution of the concept of Political Prisoner is the norm this is how they are treated. This is a mild form of the process compared to the classic forms in the USSR but it is the same and will only degenerate.


47 posted on 08/17/2023 12:53:12 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe p)
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To: Soul of the South

“Where are Amnesty International, the American Civil Liberties Union, and all of the liberal churches who seek social justice?”

The answer to that is easy to see. “Those incarcerated are not OUR kind.....they are right-wing.


48 posted on 08/17/2023 12:59:43 PM PDT by Islander2
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

OK, but Antifa are consistently convicted felons with active warrants and mile long rap sheets and they don’t get this treatment at all. In fact, the DAs will often nolle prosequi the charges.


49 posted on 08/17/2023 1:07:43 PM PDT by Shadow44
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To: lodi90

Your logical and critical thinking skills are nil.

Or you’re just demagogic purposely and knowingly.


50 posted on 08/17/2023 1:09:20 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

How is it logical to want allies like this woman beating POS? He’s got a rap sheet longer than Saint George Floyd.


51 posted on 08/17/2023 1:31:17 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: lodi90
"Trump certainly has a unique ability to attract flotsam and jetsam like this convicted woman beating turd."

So this is Trumps fault?

Or are you suggesting that Trump is a flawed person/politician because 100% of the people that support are required to be without sin?

Your comment, dragging Trump in this particular story, is pretty bizarre.

52 posted on 08/17/2023 1:44:20 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: ChildOfThe60s
Ignoring the debate about his conditions, what about incarcerating someone for two and a half years without a trial? That is true totalitarianism.

100% Agree.
53 posted on 08/17/2023 1:45:11 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: Captain Rhino
BTW, this post is about the photos only. Not disputing the claims of gross mistreatment of Jan 6 detainees. Too many accounts from too many sources for them all to be false.

Yes sir! I do not dispute any of those claims nor do I think it was ever right to lock these folks up in the first place.
54 posted on 08/17/2023 1:46:55 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: ChildOfThe60s; mmichaels1970
"Ignoring the debate about his conditions, what about incarcerating someone for two and a half years without a trial?"

Yes. That is a great question. Regardless of his background, or what he's alleged to have done on J6, keeping a citizen of this country locked up, without trial, for 2 & 1/2 years is clearly criminal itself.

55 posted on 08/17/2023 1:50:36 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: roving
Go visit him.

No need to get snarky. If those truly are his living conditions, then it is torture and an outrage. If it turns out those photos were staged, it hurts the argument against the holding and the treatment of these folks more than it helps it. I like to keep a cautious eye out for attempts to manipulate our reactions and emotions.

I just wonder how many people are walking around jail pods snapping pictures of prisoners in their cells. Something just seems odd.

Also, I tend to guess that you can't just drop in and visit any old prisoner at will. You'd likely need him to add you to an approved visitor's list.
56 posted on 08/17/2023 1:52:02 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: frogjerk

People should receive such treatment only after the trial. They should not be treated like this prior to trial.


57 posted on 08/17/2023 1:55:29 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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To: lodi90

BINGO! I wouldn’t piss on this scumbag if he were in fire! But hey, as long as it’s for “our cause” right!? Never thought I’d see the day FReepers support violent women beaters; no matter the injustice. This tough guy should have been 6 feet under years ago the moment he lifted a finger at a woman.


58 posted on 08/17/2023 2:02:40 PM PDT by Jarhead9297
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To: TexasFreeper2009

You’re right. If only there was a Republican party or something to sound off abt them, too.


59 posted on 08/17/2023 2:06:42 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch (https://thepurginglutheran.wordpress.com)
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To: InvisibleChurch

If only there was a Republican party or something to sound
off abt them, too.

*******

Hang on Trump is back and going to fix all or so it’s claimed


60 posted on 08/17/2023 2:13:09 PM PDT by deport
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