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[KavkazUzel] The “Team Against Torture” informed law enforcement officers and the authorities of Ingushetia about the threat to kill human rights activist Magomed Alamov, but there was no response to the appeal. Marina Yandieva, who fled from domestic violence and was given a lift by Alamov when escaping from home, asked the Russian Ombudsman to intervene in the situation.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, relatives of 28-year-old resident of Ingushetia Marina Yandieva, who escaped due to domestic violence, are holding human rights activist and lawyer Magomed Alamov and threatening to kill him, accusing him of organizing the girl's escape.
Alamov did not know about the situation, but only gave her a lift, the “Team Against Torture” said on October 24. Human rights activists also reported that security forces from Chechnya, shortly after Yandieva’s escape, kidnapped Alamov’s brother, demanding that Magomed Alamov return to Chechnya.
Addition from the "Caucasian Knot" from 23.30 Moscow time 25.10: Magomed Alamov is in Chechnya, where he is from, along with his relatives, while the threat remains, the "Team Against Torture"* reported today. He cannot leave because he fears for the lives of his relatives who will remain in the republic, human rights activists reported today. They added that appeals have been sent to a number of law enforcement agencies with a request to verify arguments about possible threats of murder and criminal prosecution against Magomed Alamov and his relatives, as well as with a request to take measures to ensure the safety of Alamov and his relatives.
The "Team Against Torture"* confirmed to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that lawyer Magomed Alamov is not staying with the family of Marina Yandieva's relatives, and earlier he himself came to the house of Marina's relatives. His brother is also free. “Magomed is in touch with us. It is important to note that he was not held by force - he came to the house of the girl’s relatives of his own free will. He wanted to explain that he did not kidnap her, that in general he knew little about her. However, they began to threaten him there, then "We contacted Marina - the conversation was published. He was not kidnapped - this is incorrect information, neither the checkpoint nor he himself said anything like that. As for brother Magomed, he is now at home, no harm was done to him," the human rights organization said.
Law enforcement agencies did not react in any way to the situation with Alamov, the organization reported. “There are no public reactions yet. The head of the “Team Against Torture”* Sergei Babinets sent an appeal to the Prosecutor General of Russia Igor Krasnov, the Prosecutor of the Republic of Ingushetia Andrei Vasilchenko, the head of the Main Directorate of Internal Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Alexander Makarov, the Minister of Internal Affairs for Ingushetia Mikhail Korobkin.
Human rights activists asked to check the arguments about possible threats of murder and criminal prosecution to Magomed Alamov and his relatives, to take measures to ensure the safety of Alamov and his relatives. They also sent an appeal to the head of the Republic of Ingushetia, Mahmud-Ali Kalimatov, with the same request. The crisis group SOS appealed to Russian Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova. On behalf of the Human Rights Council, Eva Merkacheva joined the work," the press service of the "Team Against Torture" reported*.
The SOS Crisis Group also told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that there was no reaction from law enforcement agencies. Marina Yandieva did not return to Ingushetia. “She doesn’t want to return. She is being demanded to return to her family in Ingushetia, the family lives in Nazran. The checkpoint lawyer* who gave her a lift is a Chechen, and it is he and his family who are now being threatened. The connection with Chechnya is due here precisely to the fact that the checkpoint officer is a Chechen ", explained the human rights organization. They confirmed that Magomed Alamov's brother is now safe.
“He was kept for about a day, then released. Alamov was just returning from Ingushetia to Chechnya so that his brother would be released,” Alexandra Miroshnikova, press secretary of the Crisis Group IC SOS, told the correspondent.
Marina Yandieva, in a video published today on the Telegram channel of the Crisis Group SK SOS, addressed the Russian Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova, law enforcement agencies, human rights organizations and the media. She reported that she voluntarily left the house and notified her family of her departure. According to her, her family, in seeking her return, uses manipulation: they put her on the wanted list and actually “took hostage” the man who was simply giving her a lift to Mineralnye Vody. “I have absolutely no idea what to do in this situation,” says the girl in the video with tears in her eyes.
The recording was made immediately after a call to relatives, when they began to threaten Marina that they would kill a person, as indicated in the description of the video.
According to Marina Yandieva, she was subjected to domestic violence. In 2016, she tried to escape to Moscow, but she was tracked down, beaten and returned home. After this, Marina lived in isolation and without means of communication for three years, and her relatives fabricated a certificate about her mental disorder and threatened her with an “honor killing,” human rights activists previously reported. Women whose behavior is considered a disgrace by their relatives may become victims of “honor killings,” says the Caucasian Knot report “ Honor Killings in the North Caucasus.”
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Security forces interviewed Alena Sadovskaya, a Caucasian Knot journalist detained in Nazran, and released her. The arrest was preceded by the journalist's trip to the house where Team Against Torture lawyer Magomed Alamov was reportedly being held.
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Security forces interviewed Caucasian Knot correspondent Alena Sadovskaya, after which they released her.
Sadovskaya said that journalist Lilian Rubtsova was detained along with her. They arrived at the house where Team Against Torture lawyer Magomed Alamov was reportedly being held, who was giving a lift to local resident Marina Yandieva, who had fled domestic violence. “The residents of the house called the police and reported that two suspicious women were walking around the house. As a result, the police arrived and made an arrest,” Sadovskaya said.
According to Sadovskaya, at 21.40 Moscow time she left the Nazran police department, giving the lawyer a copy of her protocol. After this, the journalist and an escort were taken to the border of Ingushetia with North Ossetia, after which she went to one of the hotels in Vladikavkaz.
Relatives of 28-year-old resident of Ingushetia Marina Yandieva, who escaped due to domestic violence, are threatening to kill lawyer Magomed Alamov, accusing him of organizing the girl’s escape. Alamov did not know about the situation, but only gave the girl a lift, the “Team Against Torture”* said on October 24.
In connection with the threats to Alamov, human rights activists turned to law enforcement agencies and the authorities of Ingushetia, but there was no reaction.
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