Policemen in Grozny. Photo by Magomed Magomedov for the Caucasian Knot.

18 August 2017, 08:34

HRC verifies information on new cases of torture used against Chechen residents

Rights defenders have informed Mikhail Fedotov, the chairman of the Presidential Council for Human Rights (HRC), that relatives of Magomed Taramov and Djamalai Tazbiev were subjected to beating at a police station. According to Mikhail Fedotov, he verifies the information through the Human Rights Council under the leader of Chechnya.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on August 17, according to the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta", Salman and Sultan Taramov and Magomed Tazbiev, relatives of Magomed Taramov and Djamalai Tazbiev, who were detained in Chechnya after an attack on Grozny in December 2016, were beaten at a police station in Chechnya. On the same day, their advocate Vladimir Rutkovsky was also detained.

The fact that the rights defenders have informed Mikhail Fedotov about the incident with the relatives of Magomed Taramov and Djamalai Tazbiev on August 17 has been reported today by the CHR chairman himself.

"I have got the information from the rights defenders and now I am checking it through the Human Rights Council under the leader of the Chechen Republic," reported Mikhail Fedotov as quoted by the RIA "Novosti".

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.

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