28 June 2018, 14:54
Ingush native sentenced in case of plotting a terror act in Saint Petersburg
The court sentenced Aliskhan Esmurziev, a native of Ingushetia, to two years of imprisonment for illegal possession of weapons and failure to report on the preparation of a terror act. After their detention, Aliskhan Esmurziev and Shamil Omargadjiev, a native of Dagestan, sentenced in the same case, complained of torture.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on June 25, Shamil Omargadjiev, a native of Dagestan, one of the defendants in the case of plotting a terror act in the Kazan Cathedral, was sentenced to 2.5 years of imprisonment.
On December 15, 2017, the FSB announced the detention in Saint Petersburg of seven members of the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS) banned in Russia. According to the law enforcement bodies, the suspects planned terror acts, including a bombing of the Kazan Cathedral.
In December 2017, Maxim Kamakin, an advocate of Aliskhan Esmurziev, reported that after the detention, his client was tortured by people in masks.
"They used their fists to beat him to his face, ribs, and kidneys. They tortured him with an electric shocker and tried to force him to confess to the possession of arms ... Aliskhan has a wife and a young daughter. And like any normal person, he would not have kept weapons at home," said Maxim Kamakin as quoted by the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta".
The "Mediadzona" reports that in April, Shamil Omargadjiev complained to the Saint Petersburg Public Observation Commission (POC) about torture with electric current.
This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on June 28, 2018 at 10:29 am MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.
