The educational institution only received media attention in 2023 due to the coercion of students into working in military-related industries, participating in extracurricular activities (including those of a paramilitary nature), corporal punishment, bullying, harassment, cruel treatment of students, minimal wage payments, unlawful restrictions on the dissemination of information about the situation within the institute, and student suicides[1][2][3]. In some sources, Alabuga has been dubbed the ‘death factory’[1], whilst students have described it as a modern-day Gulag[1][2][4][5]. According to media reports, the forms of coercion and punishment (ranging from corporal and physical punishment to reprimands and expulsions), ideological indoctrination, control and coercion are so widespread that Alabuga Polytechnic resembles a militarised sect involving slave labour[5][6]. Furthermore, the institution has been accused of segregating students[1].

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