18 August 2017, 21:54
"Novaya Gazeta" reports on organized action of repentance held in Chechnya
In Grozny, the Chechen law enforcement agencies have organized mass repentance of local residents who signed an appeal to the Russian General Prosecutor, the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" reports.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that at trial, Magomed Taramov and Djamalai Tazbiev, residents of the Grozny's village of Krasnaya Turbina, detained after an attack on Grozny in December 2016, pleaded not guilty and complained of torture. On August 17, the "Novaya Gazeta" reported that more than 150 residents of Chechnya signed an appeal to General Prosecutor Yuri Chaika with a request to start criminal proceedings against law enforcers who tortured Magomed Taramov and Djamalai Tazbiev.
On August 18, law enforcers demanded from the people who signed the appeal to Yuri Chaika to admit that they signed the letter without knowing its content, the "Novaya Gazeta" reports. On the action, the people who signed the appeal were told to chant: "We were misled!"
The planned action was held in the centre of Grozny, near the Akhmat-Khadji Kadyrov Memorial Complex in Putin Avenue, the "Novaya Gazeta" reports.
According to the newspaper, the people who signed the appeal to Yuri Chaika were gathered in a building of a law enforcement agency and brought to the place of the action in a bus. After the event, they were again put on the bus.
Till present, no information has been reported concerning where the people were taken after the end of the action.
Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.
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