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[KavkaUzel] The security forces tortured Khasan Islamov, a resident of Chechnya, to confess to organizing an illegal armed group. The court sentenced him to 6.5 years in prison, ignoring Islamov's statements about torture and his innocence. The investigation issued 10 rulings refusing to open a criminal case, the Team Against Torture reported.
Khasan Islamov's mother Tabarik appealed to human rights activists in September 2019. She said that on February 3, 2019, in the village of Savelyevskaya of the Chechen Republic, security forces detained her three sons: Khasan, Hussein and Kharon. Hussein and Kharon were released almost immediately, while Hasan was left behind. Human rights activists managed to meet with him in the pre-trial detention center. Islamov said that after his arrest in February, he was taken to the security department, where two security officials beat him with their hands, feet and beat him with a stick, demanding that he sign a confession that he planned an attack on law enforcement officers, the Team Against Torture reported today* .
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" asked for a stick to be brought to him. He hit it on the table and a corner broke off the table. He said: 'Think about what will happen to you when I start beating her.' how my friend is beaten and he screams," he is quoted on the CPT* website.
Later, Islamov, according to him, was transferred to another department, where for about five hours they beat him with a metal-plastic hose and tortured him with electric current. Then, according to Hassan, he was kept in a garage for two months, while he spent the night standing, handcuffed to a pipe by the arm. His friend was also with him, who was also forced to confess to participation in an illegal armed formation. " I heard how others were tortured in the garage every night," his words are quoted in the publication.
Hassan was charged and his detention was issued only on April 1, 2019. In April 2022, the court found Hassan guilty of organizing an illegal armed group (Article 208 of the Criminal Code) and illegal possession of weapons (Article 222 of the Criminal Code). He was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison. In court, Hassan denied his involvement in the alleged crimes and said that he pleaded guilty under torture, the report says.
The KP lawyers and Islamov's mother have repeatedly applied to the investigating authorities and the prosecutor's office on the fact of the incident. In the Sheikh-Mansurovsky Investigation Department of Grozny, from August 2019 to the present, an inspection has been carried out against police officers. 10 decisions were issued to refuse to initiate a criminal case, which were canceled by the head of the investigative body and the prosecutor. When canceling, the investigator was repeatedly given instructions on the necessary verification actions, which have not been completed so far.
On February 8, a court session was held in the Staropromyslovsky District Court of Grozny: the KPP* lawyers appealed against the latest illegal decision to refuse to initiate a criminal case. At the meeting, it turned out that the material was again sent for additional verification. As a result, the court terminated the proceedings on the complaint,
In Chechnya and other regions of Russia, there is a practice of investigators avoiding responsibility, especially in cases involving torture, human rights activists previously interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" said, commenting on a similar case of Chechen actor Timur Debishev, who is trying to bring law enforcement officers to justice for torture, but due to the actions of the investigation, he cannot reach the consideration of the complaint in court.
They noted that Russian legislation provides the investigative committee with enormous opportunities to refuse to initiate a criminal case. Previously, it was possible to challenge such actions in the European Court of Human Rights ( Russia refused to comply with the decisions of the ECtHR, issued after March 15, 2022 - Note of the "Caucasian Knot" ).
In 2018, Timur Debishev, an actor at the Lermontov Russian Drama Theater in Grozny, stated that he had been tortured by the security forces . According to Debishev, the security forces found his phone number among the contacts of the suspect in drug trafficking, tortured him with electric shocks and beat him, demanding to give up drug addicts he knew.
Studying Debishev's contacts, the operatives became interested in his acquaintances from the Chechen folklore ensemble Nokhcho. At least one of them, Tamerlan Amaev, was beaten up by security forces in front of Timur. Subsequently, Amaev and two of his colleagues in the ensemble gave evidence confirming the version of the security forces. The investigation has repeatedly refused to initiate a criminal case on the application of Timur Debishev.
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