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[KavkazUzel] Police officers in Dagestan have changed their registration tactics and now visit those registered under the pretext of a population census or demand to send photos from their place of residence, the Memorial Human Rights Center said.
The "Caucasian Kno" has reported that in March 2017, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Dagestan announced the destruction of orders on professional accounting under the category "extremist". However, human rights activists stated that the practice of accounting for believers in the republic was preserved. In March 2018, Novaya Gazeta reported that the security forces are using the measures of the abolished professional accounting, applying the law "On Investigative Activities."
In 2020, the security forces regularly carried out Friday raids near the Tangim mosque in Makhachkala. For several years, police officers brought to the departments and checked several thousand visitors to the mosque, the leadership of "Tangim" considered this a form of pressure on believers. After a number of complaints and lawsuits, the security forces stopped detaining visitors to the mosque, limiting themselves to recording their data. Such believers eventually ended up on a preventive register. Profuchet is one of the ways to prevent offenses and recurrence of crimes, according to the "Caucasian Knot" certificate "Profuchet in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation."
The Dagestan police continue to keep records, but in official responses to complaints and statements they deny its existence, while preventive work is taking "more and more sophisticated forms," the Memorial Human Rights Center said today.
"For example, police officers come to the homes of those registered under the guise of a population census or demand that people send them photographs of their places of residence," says a post on Memorial's telegram channel.
Residents of Dagestan tell the Memorial volunteers that they have been called to the police because of a possible registration with a professional registration, human rights activists said. "Most often this is due to visiting mosques that are not related to the official clergy, communicating with students of Islamic educational institutions abroad, appearance - a long beard, hijab/niqab. They take explanations from people, write down their personal data, check the contents of phones," said in the post. Earlier, as part of a professional accounting, people were regularly stopped at traffic police posts, summoned and taken to the internal affairs bodies, the report explains.
The CRHR has data that in 2023 those who visited the Tangim mosque in Makhachkala were registered, Memorial reported. "Approximately 20 men in a village in the Babayurtovsky district were put on record because of their adherence to the Salafi movement in Islam and communication with a fellow villager who studies Islam in Egypt. Residents of Makhachkala and Kaspiysk were put under control because they wear a niqab" human rights activists said.
Vazir Bazanaev and Ramazan Nazhduev also complained about the increased attention of the security forces, who, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, are not on the professional register, Memorial stressed.
Vazir Bazanaev, a resident of Chinar village, was registered in 2013 due to the fact that he visited a mosque in Derbent. The constant interest of the security forces created problems for the man, in particular, with employment. In April 2022, the Prosecutor General’s Office did not find any violations when considering a complaint about inaccurate answers from the Dagestan prosecutor’s office, in particular, about the registration of Vazir Bazanaev.
Evidence of illegal accounting, listed in the complaint, was ignored, human rights activists said. Later, on May 23, 2022, a court in Makhachkala dismissed a lawsuit filed by former FSB officer Ramazan Nazhduev against the Ministry of Internal Affairs on the issue of preventive registration. The authorities of Dagestan want to keep profuchet , but do not have the right to apply it officially in the absence of a relevant federal law, said lawyer Marina Agaltsova.
“In early June, Vazir Bazanaev told a volunteer that during his trip to Moscow for treatment at the end of May, operational officers of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow began calling him. They asked about Bazanaev’s whereabouts in order to have a “preventive conversation” with him. The police also found out whether Bazanaev professes "traditional" Islam, why he was put on a professional record, what measures were taken against him by law enforcement officers, "Memorial reported.
Ramazan Nazhduev also told the HCHR volunteers that on April 24, 2023, in Dagestan, his car was stopped by PPS officers. "The police officer checked the documents and said that Nazhduev is registered as an extremist. This indicates that the base exists and that people are put on a professional record - although the Ministry of Internal Affairs denies this fact," the publication says.
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