Chechen law enforcers publicly scold detainees for drinking alcohol

Seven men detained in Kurchaloi District were reprimanded at the police station, shows the video posted on the Instagram. Some social network users have criticized law enforcers for publicly humiliating people.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that since October 2019 until the start of the coronavirus pandemic, social networks regularly posted reports about "educational conversations" organized at Chechen police stations with the people detained for use of alcohol and psychotropic substances.

On August 30, a video clip was posted on the Instagram, in which Rustam Aguev, the boss of the Kurchaloi ROVD (District Interior Division), scolds seven men in protective medical masks standing in front of him with their heads down.

"In our district, using drugs (and) sale of alcohol are unacceptable. Having drunk alcohol or [used] a pill, you can crash [in a car] into people, kill or injure them. [...] You take pills and use alcohol – it's a shame," Rustam Aguev told the detainees; his words were translated into Russian by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Authors of some comments in social networks have treated the public scolding of the detainees as humiliating. "I'm not making excuses for these guys; I condemn what they are doing; and I'm sure that these actions should be punished; but I'm against filming and showing such videos to the whole country and the whole world – this is wrong," the user stronglife897 wrote, in particular.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on August 31, 2020 at 09:56 am MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.