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2023-09-30 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Transcaucasus Tales of Torture News Roundup for September 29th, 2023

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Human rights activists achieved verification of a Kuban pensioner’s claim of torture

[KavkazUzel] The investigation refused five times to consider the statement of a resident of the village of Novorozhdestvenskaya, Viktor Krasnoborodko, about torture, during which the security forces obtained from a pensioner a confession of beating his stepson, but they managed to obtain a new review of the actions of the security forces, human rights activists reported. Krasnoborodko was arrested, his case was sent to court, his family does not believe in his guilt and calls the case falsified.

As the " Caucasian Knot " wrote, a resident of the village of Novorozhdestvenskaya, Viktor Krasnoborodko, complained about torture by security forces who demanded that he confess to beating his stepson, the man himself told human rights activists.

The case of 60-year-old pensioner Viktor Krasnoborodko, who, under torture, incriminated himself in the murder of his 38-year-old stepson Andrei, is being considered in the Tikhoretsk city court. The security forces put forward a version according to which the pensioner beat the young man to death “due to hostile relations.” The article on causing grievous bodily harm (Article 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), under which the case was opened, after the death of the stepson in the hospital, was reclassified as an article on murder (Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), human rights activists reported.

Currently, Krasnoborodko is being held in pre-trial detention center No. 2 in Armavir, a representative of the “Team Against Torture”* told the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent . He said that according to the statement of Krasnoborodko, a pensioner The police hung me up with a crowbar and beat me with a stun gun and electric shock. “His internal organs were not damaged, but the expert revealed that he had injuries “in the form of bruises in the area of the upper extremities, the right lower extremity, abrasions in the area of the upper extremities, wounds in the area of the left upper extremity, abrasions in the area of the lower extremities.” C 7 until October 21, 2022, Krasnoborodko was on sick leave issued by an orthopedic traumatologist. A statement was written, however, no criminal case was opened against the police who tortured the pensioner. Moreover, the police, who, according to Krasnoborodko, beat him, helped in the investigation of the criminal case against him. The investigator who verified the use of violence and the investigator who investigated the death of Krasnoborodko’s stepson were in neighboring offices,”

He noted that Krasnoborodko’s application is now being considered again. “Based on the results of the inspection against the police, the investigator issued illegal refusals to initiate a criminal case five times. Currently, the decision to refuse to initiate a criminal case has been canceled, an additional investigation is being carried out. The investigation department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Krasnodar Territory is keeping the progress and results of the investigation of the crime report under control,” the representative of the human rights organization emphasized.

The criminal case against Viktor Krasnoborodko is in court, he said. “He is accused of murdering his stepson under Part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Six people were recognized as victims in the case - Krasnoborodko’s wife Galina and daughters, among whom Alevtina, it was she who found our organization and contacted us. Krasnoborodko filed a petition to consider the case with the participation of jury trial. There were several court hearings at which they could not recruit the required number of jurors. That is, now the consideration of the criminal case is at the stage of jury selection. The next hearing is scheduled for October 10. Krasnoborodko has a lawyer by agreement, who is handling his case in court. The committee in is not involved in this criminal case, we are only dealing with issues related to the torture of Viktor Krasnoborodko,” said a representative of the organization.

Viktor Krasnoborodko’s daughter Alevtina, who turned to human rights activists, does not believe in her father’s guilt. “My father is a strict and fair person. There were six children in our family. Five girls and one boy - my half-brother on my mother’s side, Andrei. We all grew up and were brought up together in love and respect for each other. Everyone in the family is hardworking and friendly. We have a farm and we all worked. Dad taught Andrei men's affairs, they went fishing together. Andrei helped his parents with the housework. Dad treated us all the same. He didn't have that: family - not family. We were all for his relatives. Therefore, not a single member of our family believes in the investigation’s version that he could have beaten Andrei to death,” Alevtina Krasnoborodko told the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent.

According to her, the investigation's version looks extremely doubtful - her brother was a strong and athletic man, and there was never any hostile relationship between father and brother. “How could an almost 60-year-old man, a pensioner, beat a 38-year-old strong, muscular, athletic man like my brother like that? It’s unlikely that one person could have dealt with him, he would have always fought back. I can say for sure that those materials The criminal case that I saw was completely falsified, starting from the time of the crime and ending with the video recordings that we presented, but the investigators distorted everything and presented it as it was beneficial for them,” says Alevtina Krasnoborodko.

The mother of the deceased and the wife of the accused, Galina Krasnoborodko, said that she was experiencing triple grief - from the death of her son, from the unfounded accusation of this against her husband, and from the fact that her husband was subjected to terrible torture. “Andrei’s death is a terrible grief for our entire family. I can’t imagine what the investigators could have come up with and for this they tortured my husband so that he would incriminate himself. The real criminals are at large and this injustice makes our common family grief even greater,” - she told the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot"

She said that her son was found in serious condition by her husband on August 28, 2022. “My husband worked as a security guard, and during the day he was engaged in agriculture. We have a house number 78 on Kommunisticheskaya Street, we gave it to Andrey, we also have a farm there. We live next to each other across the street. We constantly went to each other. He came to eat with us, we to him. And so Victor was walking home after work at about 9 o'clock in the morning and on the way he stopped by to help with the housework at Andrey's, as usual. The video footage shows how he comes in and exactly 47 seconds later comes out and starts calling. He called me and said immediately come, then called the police and an ambulance, as I later found out. I ran quickly, there was no face on him. I went into the room with him and saw Andrei on the sofa. The left side of his head was broken, he was unconscious. There was a pool of blood under him,” Galina said.

The woman said that her son “he spent a month in a coma in the hospital under machines.” “My husband and I went every day. A month later, my son woke up and even smiled at us. How could he smile at Viktor Nikolaevich if he had beaten him like that? He even began to eat, but spoke weakly and quietly. One day I stayed with him and began to ask tell me the names of those who beat him and he told me two names,” noted Galina.

According to her, Andrei “sometimes communicated with these acquaintances out of the kindness of his soul,” but the men “were fans of drinking and dealt with drugs.” Galina emphasized that one of the men was jealous due to her son’s meetings with the woman he liked. “I immediately thought that the motive could be jealousy towards her. As soon as I heard these names from my son, I immediately ran to the police and began to ask the district police officer to come and interview my son, but I was refused. The police officer said that he did not have time for this ", she said.

However, on September 19, security forces began to extort a confession from her husband. “Under torture, he wrote a confession and they opened a criminal case under Article 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. And on November 5, his son died. He died without being questioned by the police,” said Galina Krasnoborodko.

Viktor Krasnoborodko was arrested on February 15, Galina said. She noted that she goes to court hearings to meet her husband. “We go to court as a family. My husband has aged a lot and lost weight. I see that morally, from injustice and from the grief associated with Andrei’s death, he has completely given up. But we try to support him and say that we love and believe him that the truth will prevail,” says Galina Krasnoborodko.

She noted that the family, with the support of human rights activists, intends to fight for his release. However, the family fears for his health, since Viktor Krasnoborodko has high blood pressure and a heart condition.

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The ECHR recognized Kadyrov's former guard as a victim of torture in a colony

A former employee of the security service of the President of Chechnya, Ayub Tuntuyev, was subjected to torture by security forces in the colony, the ECHR said and awarded Tuntuyev’s heiress compensation of 12.5 thousand euros.

As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, on May 15, 2008, the Supreme Court of Chechnya sentenced Ayub Tuntuyev, a former member of the security service of the President of Chechnya, to 24 years in prison in the case of a terrorist attack in 2005. On March 12, 2019, Tuntuev, who was supposed to be released in 2030, was found dead in the medical unit of a colony in the Vladimir region. Before this, in August 2018, the defense filed a complaint with the ECHR about pressure on Tuntuev and torture, while the prisoner himself never spoke about the desire to commit suicide, but reported threats against him.

CCTV recordings and an examination of Ayub Tuntuev’s body did not confirm his family’s version of death after being beaten in the colony, the Investigative Committee said. The prisoner's lawyer indicated that the version of Tuntuev's suicide is "absolutely unacceptable."

The European Court of Human Rights recognized Ayub Tuntuev as a victim of torture and ordered the Russian authorities to pay his heiress Hedi Rasueva 12.5 thousand euros, according to a decision published on September 28 on the ECHR website.

Having considered the complaint filed in August 2018, the court concluded that on May 17, 2016, Tuntuev was beaten on the kidneys, chest and head on the territory of a colony in the Vladimir region and threatened with sexual violence and poisoning by “two men in civilian clothes” in order to force him to confess . “Later that same day, and again on May 20, 2016, the applicant was threatened by [security forces] officers who demanded that he waive his right to a lawyer and remain silent about the ill-treatment,” the publication says.

Let us recall that on August 2, 2017, the court recognized Tuntuev as a participant in the attack on Pskov paratroopers in 2000, and his term of imprisonment was increased by 11 months. The convict did not agree with this sentence either.

On June 11, 2022, Vladimir Putin signed a law on non-execution of ECHR decisions made after March 15 of the same year. On September 16, 2022, Russia ceased to be a party to the European Convention on Human Rights. The ECHR stated that it retains competence to consider applications directed against Russia, provided that they were filed before that day.

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The court suspended the consideration of Ataev's case due to his allegations of torture

The court in Khasavyurt suspended the trial of Eduard Ataev while the prosecutor's office considered the activist's complaint about the actions of security forces during his arrest, the lawyer said.

As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, the former coordinator of Navalny's headquarters* in Makhachkala, Eduard Ataev, was arrested on charges of possession of an explosive device and drugs. Atayev claims that the grenade and drugs were planted on him, and connects the persecution with his civic and political position and opposition to corruption schemes. The quality of the examination of the grenade found during the search of Ataev raised questions among the defense.

There are signs of falsification in the materials of the case of Eduard Atayev, the defense said in February. In Dagestan, fabrication of criminal cases against critics of the government is practiced, journalist Idris Yusupov pointed out.

The Khasavyurt District Court suspended the consideration of the case of Eduard Ataev, said the lawyer of the accused, Israfil Gadadov. According to him, the judge suspended the process while the prosecutor’s office considered Atayev’s statement about the actions of the security forces during his arrest, Kavkaz.Realii reported on September 28.

In court, Atayev stated that during his arrest, security forces put a bag over his head, wrapped it with tape, and then forcibly put objects that looked like a pistol handle and a grenade into his hands, the publication writes.

The case file for Eduard Ataev on the Khasavyurt District Court website was updated on September 11. It says that the last meeting in the case took place on September 11, the date of the next meeting is not indicated.

Let us recall that Eduard Ataev held single pickets in Makhachkala with calls, in particular, to stop corruption in the Khasavyurt region. On January 25, 2022, he was detained at a protest against natural resource extraction in the village of Endirei. A report was drawn up against him under Part 1 of Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (disobedience to law enforcement officers), but the court did not consider the materials and returned them back due to violations committed during the preparation.

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